Hostricity Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 Here's my problem: I have a web hosting customer who was accused of spamming when he did nothing. My upstream provider claims that they cannot move my customer back to the regular server farm because they claim "SpamCop will block our severs" if they do. First, I don't see anyplace where SpamCop is maintaining a list of domain names. Does SpamCop maintain such a list? If my customer's website is listed by SpamCop, how do I get my customer de-listed? If you are interested, here are the gory details: A website owner spammed by sending out his home page as a spam email. This website has a letters to the editor section on the homepage. Someone wrote in and asked, "What can you tell me about this airplane crash?" The editor of the website responded, "There's an article about this at www.MyCustomersWebsite.com/PageOfInterest" Funny thing is that "PageOfInterest" isn't even a page on my customer's website - It is a page that WAS on my customers' site 2 years ago, but, was deleted before he moved his hosting to my company. Imagine if I put a comment on my website homepage such as "I had to change my domain name and hosting company because I like to spam and I got listed at www.spamcop.net" and then spammed by sending out my homepage. SpamCop could endup in the spammer databases under the criteria used to block my customer. My customer has been moved to a special spam farm at my upstream provider. This farm is not as reliable as the regular server farm and it is hurting my customer's business. Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turetzsr Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 Hi, Geoff! ...Please take a look at some FAQs to see if any answer your question. Some that might be helpful to you are: SpamCop - Help for spam report recipients Pinned: FAQ Entry: Why is my email blocked? Who appointed you the "cop" of the internet? Where do you get off? How can I be de-listed Pinned: Why Am I Blocked FAQ Pinned: Cost of spam ...If you still have any questions after looking at these, please do return here and post follow-ups. ...Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spambo Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 Here's my problem: I have a web hosting customer who was accused of spamming when he did nothing. My upstream provider claims that they cannot move my customer back to the regular server farm because they claim "SpamCop will block our severs" if they do. [snip] SpamCop's blocklist contains only IP numbers that have been identified as the source of emailed spam. It does not contain domain names (spamvertised or otherwise) or email addresses. If the spam email originates at one of your customer's IPs then that IP is subject to listing in the SCBL. If your customer's web site is only mentioned in a URL in the message body it may be reported as spam but it won't cause a SCBL listing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff G. Posted March 27, 2004 Share Posted March 27, 2004 Your upstream provider is mistaken. SpamCop does not currently list Domains or IP Addresses of URLs advertised in spam, but it does report to their providers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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