OT: Spamcop BL - good or dangerous?

Jeff A. Earickson jaearick at colby.edu
Wed Nov 29 12:17:53 GMT 2006


I quit using Spamcop, both as an RBL with sendmail and within MailScanner,
over a year ago.  They are way overzealous in blocking legit sites, IMHO.
Avoid them.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Arthur Sherman wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:21:54 +0200
> From: Arthur Sherman <arturs at netvision.net.il>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: 'MailScanner discussion' <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: OT: Spamcop BL - good or dangerous?
> 
> Hi,
>
> Sometimes I get a message from any of lists I'm subscribed to, that mail to
> my address bounces.
> And as a reason I see Spamcop blocking sender's (legitimate) server.
>
> Here comes the question:
> What would you use instead of Spamcop?
> It gotta be free service, and the more lists the better: right now, Spamcop
> is #1 blocking BL in the logs.
> I am afraid if I drop it, the blocking will be worse.
>
>
> Best,
>
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