OT: Spamcop BL - good or dangerous?

[Matt Kettler]

Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Wednesday November 29, 2006 at 01:47:11 (PM) Matt Kettler wrote:
> 
>> And, the OP isn't even complaining about *HIS* mail being blocked, he's
>> complaining about spamassassin.apache.org being blocked while trying to send TO him!
> 
> I need more sleep. I though he was complaining about his inability to
> send. If he wants to post the entire bounce message or whatever, the
> addresses used, etc. I might like to look into it. Other than that, it
> is just a waste of time.
> 
> BTW, I subscribe to httpd.apache.org and they are not being blacklisted.
> At least I have not seen any evidence of it.

It's been ongoing. hermes.apache.org (the ASF list server) keeps getting in and
out of spamcop.

Some sample reports of the problem on the SpamAssassin users's list:

June 2004:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/50723/focus=50736

November 2006:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/90079/focus=90120