[SpamCop-List] Re: eMail rejected, what does this mean?

[Matthew L Reed]

"Garen Erdoisa" <scamper at trisk.com> wrote in message 
news:du06n2$pjo$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Matthew L Reed wrote:
>>> It means that the server you tried to send your email to checked the 
>>> reputation of IP address that directly connected to it using a real time 
>>> blocklist and found a positive hit on that block list for that IP 
>>> address.
>>>
>>
>> Ahh, this gets more interesting. My domain is zootal.com and my mail 
>> server is mail.zootal.com, and if you tr mail.zootal.com it takes you to 
>> 67.15.202.24. I checked my usage, and there has never been any spam sent 
>> from my accounts. Does that mean that someone else with an account at my 
>> host (nethosters.com) has been using a nethosters account to send spam? 
>> How does one determine how their IP got added to the CBL?

I talked to my host. They have my account on a shared-IP setup, and someone 
else had an email form that was being exploited. They shut it down, but not 
in time to keep the IP from being listed. Mystery solved :)