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[SpamCop-List] Re: Relay testing...

Jim Seymour jseymour at spamcop.net
Mon Feb 16 08:28:59 EST 2004


Dave Minter wrote:
> Now, I've received a few emails now from a "relay tester". Half a dozen 
> so far. I find myself in a quandry as to how I should treat these - are 
> they spam?

It seems that a relay tester should be able to test for relaying without 
delivering a local message.  May I ask which relay tester?  Is it a 
well-known one?  Or some home-brew site?

If it persists, you could block their IP or domain.  That would be my 
preference over reporting as spam.

-- 
Jim Seymour.
I do not work for Spamcop, I did not write pflogsumm,
and I never wrote for PC Magazine.


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