false positives from spamcop.net?

[Martin Hepworth]

I find it better to do the RBL's in SA, so if they break/stop etc you
don't end up with a massive blacklist, merely added weight to the SA score.


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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> I've had a rash of spamcop blocks from sites deemed too critical
> for sendmail DNSBL blockage (eg Maine State Government, Yahoo lists,
> a local ISP) so I had to demote spamcop from a sendmail DNSBL down
> to the "Spam List =" line in MailScanner.  I replaced spamcop in my
> DNSBL with sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, no complaints so far.
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Matt Kettler wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:39:23 -0500
>> From: Matt Kettler <mkettler at EVI-INC.COM>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: false positives from spamcop.net?
>>
>> At 09:10 AM 2/3/2005, Tom Combs wrote:
>>
>>> Have there been any reports of problems with the spamcop.net RBL
>>> returning false positives on Feb 2? I had some email sent from
>>> mail.magnet.fsu.edu to an internal magnet.fsu.edu address that got
>>> tagged as spam by spamcop. I checked their website and we are not
>>> listed in their database.
>>
>>
>> Any chance you got reported to spamcop and wound up listed by them for a
>> short period of time?
>>
>> Given the latest trend in spam, zombies that use the proper relay, it's
>> going to be common for spamcop to wind up with short-lived listings
>> for the
>> legitimate mailservers of ISPs. At least, until the spamcop guys clean
>> things up in their reporting engine, which they may have already done.
>>
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