Spamcop.net RBL blocking emails by mistake?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Rob Morin wrote:

> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:47:31 -0400
> From: Rob Morin <rob at dido.ca>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Spamcop.net RBL blocking emails by mistake?
> 
> Is it possible to get a false positive back from spamcop.net's RBL ?
>
> I have been getting some complaints about spam being deleted, because it is 
> seen as being on spamcop.nets list, so it gets a score of 10 and gets 
> deleted....
>
> here is an entry in my log file...
>
> Sep  7 03:36:57 peter MailScanner[15870]: RBL checks: 2380E69001E.DFE12 found 
> in spamcop.net
> Sep  7 03:36:58 peter MailScanner[15870]: Message 2380E69001E.DFE12 from 
> 66.249.82.232 (team4ss at gmail.com) to zonecom.ca is spam, spamcop.net, 
> SpamAssassin (score=8.638, required 4, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, 
> RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 8.00, SARE_MSGID_LONG40 0.64)
> Sep  7 03:37:00 peter MailScanner[15870]: Spam Actions: message 
> 2380E69001E.DFE12 actions are delete
>
> I checked the IP and it was not listed. Is it possible to be listed at 7AM 
> and then removed at 10AM? Plus its a gmail.com account/IP
>
> Any ideas?

I gave up on spamcop both as an RBL and within the MS lists at the
nearly a year ago.  The were overly aggressive and their webpages
giving info on why a site was blocked got murky.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College