[SC-Help] Re: Getting balcklisted

[Mike Easter]

Posted to .help and .spam;  f/ups to .help -- so as to 'move' the
discussion to .help, see below.

Iain wrote:
> I hope this is the correct group to post this to...
>
> I am working with a large Government Department who want to send Email
> reminders to users of their online services. There's a lot of concern
> about users giving incorrect addresses (either deliberately or by
> mistake) and this leading to undeliverable mail and this being
> mis-identified by ISPs as spam and the Department being blacklisted.
>
> Personally I think the chances of this are very low, but does anyone
> have any general ideas on what might cause an ISP to automatically
> blacklist an IP address? There have been claims that "as few as three
> misaddressed Emails to AOL" can cause AOL to block an IP but that
> doesn't seem to be included in AOL's spam policies and would surely
> result in most SMTP servers in the work being blacklisted by AOL!
>
> Pointers to resources such as AOL's policy would be helpful plus any
> ideas, views or opinions. It would be intended that every message
> would have a 'This message is not relevant to me/unsubscribe' link
> plus of course full rDNS etc. would all work.
>
> Thanks.../Iain


The faq for the purposes of the various newsgroups is misleading and
neglected, and no one reads in or uses spamcop.spam, because .spam is
only for posting raw spam which is not allowed in .help or spamcop.  The
proper display of raw spam is to use a tracking url, not to use this
group whose purpose arose before the tracking url could display an
entire raw spam.

.help and spamcop are for asking general questions relating to spam and
spamcop, and no raw spam is allowed in those groups, hence the need for
this group to post the raw spam being discussed in the other groups.  No
one reads .spam because there is supposed to be only spam in it.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin