[SpamCop-List] Re: Spamcop causing problems

[David Bolt]

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, David <d.matthews at hillwalks.co.uk> wrote:-

>My 84 year old father depends on email to keep in touch with the family,
>hundreds of miles apart, but now Spamcop has decided to intercept all my
>mail and stop it.

You seem to be seriously mistaken there. SpamCop hasn't intercepted your
mail. What has happened is the admins of your fathers ISP have decided
to use the SpamCop blacklist to refuse to accept mail from those servers
that it says have sent spam.

>I have never sent a spam in my life and am heartily sick of this nuisance.

So complain to the admins of the server you're sending your mail
through. They are very likely to be the ones that are causing your
problem.

>What on earth can I do?

If my guess is right, and you are sending mail through the servers
provided by you web host (schlund.de), your best bet would be to stop
using the servers of a spam-supporting ISP[0] and send your mail through
the servers of your ISP (force9/plusnet.net). At least that way you're
less likely to have your mail blocked.


[0] Multiple spams from them, all reported and then followed up when the
spam didn't stop. The best they could offer was to get the spammer to
list-wash me, which they don't appear to have even bothered doing. I'm
still getting the spams from that same spammer, still reporting them and
Schlund don't seem to be doing anything about it.

Regards,
  David Bolt

-- 
Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/
AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3  | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0  | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11
AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02
AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11   | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62