lindrix@spamcop.net Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Help, my webhost just suspended my account because spamcop says I'm a spammer! I get all my email forwarded from my website email account to my spamcop email account and have been doing so for years. Now, my webhost has suspended my account because they say that spamcop says I'm a spammer. I can't get the ip address for my web site to submit a false accusation report because my web site won't let me in. Now it looks like I'll have to change my web hosting site and sadly it looks like spamcop has outlived it's usefulness. How do I fix things so that 1) spamcop tells my web host I'm not a spammer 2) this doesn't happen again. --lin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenUnderwood Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 There are too many holes here to start and guess what happened. Website being shutdown could indicate they received reports about your site being spamvertized . It is their decision what to do with the information provided by spamcop. I could also be that they handle your email as well and something in the headers was stopping spamcop from finding the actual source. This seems to be another case of reporting yourself becuase you failed to check your reports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazoo Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 For anyone to do anything at all, you're going to have to provide some kind of data. That you can't find the IP of your web-site seems a bit strange to me, that's some of the first data I capture in any of the web-sites I handle ... IP, hosting addresses, FTP addresses, e-mail server addresses, on and on .... and why you'd need an IP address to challenge the decision of your host is a bit odd in my opinion also ... That you were forwarding your e-mail to your SpamCop account would not be a reason for the host action. Somewhere along the line, complaints had to have been sent to this host. Did you send them or is the site itself at issue, say by being advertised in spam? Your analysis that SpamCop has outlived its usefullness seems a bit strange, as I don't see how it relates to your predicament at all. If you complained about yourself, the blame belongs elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenUnderwood Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Your analysis that SpamCop has outlived its usefullness seems a bit strange, as I don't see how it relates to your predicament at all. If you complained about yourself, the blame belongs elsewhere. Wazoo, That's easy...As long as it is helping person A, it is useful. If it starts hurting Person A, it is no longer useful. The reasons why are not important. I tend to try and ignore the rants in a post where things are not working. Then again, I'm a Red Sox fan and I have to deal with these frustrations every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindrix@spamcop.net Posted July 23, 2004 Author Share Posted July 23, 2004 Yeow! I have an email account with the web host and originally got my spamcop email because I started getting spammed big time. The web site email didn't have any filters or reporting mechanisms so I just forward the web site email to my spamcop account. Maybe I'm missing something but as far as I know, everything I've reported has come from the spammer. It's true though, I do not check each of the thirty or forty reports I file each day, I glance at a few then let them go. Too bad there's not a way to automatically keep this from happening. Truly sorry for the post, and didn't mean to get folks up and roaring. I have a small non-business web site and am just trying to do the right thing. --lin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazoo Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 spamcop.net,Jul 23 2004, 02:49 PM]Maybe I'm missing something but as far as I know, everything I've reported has come from the spammer. It's true though, I do not check each of the thirty or forty reports I file each day, I glance at a few then let them go. And again, we're left to try to guess at what's going on that generated your issue. No facts or details provided to even attempt to do any research. The "glance at a few" does suggest that care was not taken, but ...???? Too bad there's not a way to automatically keep this from happening. This is what the mail-host configuration was all about. Did you do this? Truly sorry for the post, and didn't mean to get folks up and roaring. I have a small non-business web site and am just trying to do the right thing. 13798[/snapback] The "right thing" would be to try to get this issue cleared up, and to do that, "we" are still looking for the additional information already asked for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turetzsr Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Hi, Wazoo, ...Should this be moved to Help? ty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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