SpamCop has taken us out of their black list.   

SpamCop HAD us black listed with only 1 complaint (ever). This was what
I saw as soon as I realized and checked with them.  Later today (48hours
later) it said "Since SpamCop started counting, this system has been
reported less than 10 times by less than 10 users. In the past 791.6
days, it has been listed 15 times for a total of 26.9 days"

This signals that they might have accounting problems!  How could I have
had 1 complaint on record yesterday and end up having 15 showing in
26days today? Unless they are counting into the future ;) this doesn’t
make sense. 

I applaud and thank people working to limit spam on the net and don’t
want to look like I am picking on SpamCop but this is my experience and
our lists serve close to 180,000 people.

Anyway to make it more relevant to this list what are peoples experience
in techniques to not have to deal with such headaches?

- test for openrelays on your network.
- ??
- ??


Regards,
Omer.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Russell
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:42 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Black lists
> 
> 
> Stan Horwitz wrote:
> >
> > My understanding is that spamcop runs a test for an open 
> relay before 
> > it adds any IP addresses to its blacklist. Are you saying my 
> > understanding is incorrect?
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, SpamCop does not perform any 
> open relay tests. We use the SpamCop blacklist and 
> occasionally receive complaints that we are blocking 
> legitimate email. As part of the process to determine whether 
> we should whitelist a particular IP address that has been 
> blacklisted by SpamCop, we run an open relay test, and most 
> blacklisted systems pass the test.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, SpamCop does not blacklist on 
> the basis of a single complaint. Either there were multiple 
> complaints about messages from a single IP address, or 
> messages from that IP address were sent to spamtrap 
> addresses, or both.
> 
> --
> Paul Russell
> Senior Systems Administrator
> University of Notre Dame
>