cut off by spamhaus free use?

[Scott Silva]

on 12/3/2007 7:00 AM Jeff A. Earickson spake the following:
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Jeff Mills wrote:
> 
>> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:22:00 +1100
>> From: Jeff Mills <Jeff.Mills at versacold.com.au>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject: RE: cut off by spamhaus free use?
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes it happened to one of my installs. Unfortunately, somebody had
>>>> used their domain name in a spam attack, so the server got
>>> thousands
>>>> of extra inbound emails. It was enough for spamhaus to
>>> block the servers.
>>>>
>>> And it appears that it is an automated process to be blocked,
>>> but only a manual unblock.
>>
>>
>> Yes!
>> One of the things I have done in my servers is move the spamhaus list to
>> the bottom of my list of RBL's.
>> That way, spamhaus is only queried when none of the others match. I find
>> that spamcop gets more than the others.
> 
> I've had false positive problems with spamcop in the past.  I put 
> dnsbl.sorbs.net into action in sendmail this morning, appears to be ok.
Spamcop has supposedly fixed this problem. I am not having problems with it 
right now.
> 
> I had contact with a human at spamhaus, but they aren't very forthcoming
> as to why I got cut off.  It would be nice if they had sent 
> postmaster at colby.edu
> a warning, maybe with some numbers attached.
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College


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