Monday | 7 July, 2008
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SpamCop blacklisting domains that send backscatter

My domain recently fell victim to this, but in a different way. Apparently my domain was one of the "legitimate e-mail servers" that was sending the bounce messages, as it was not rejecting incoming messages to non-existing users while the SMTP connection was still open.

I found out about this when I started receiving messages from quite a few different domains that my emails were being blocked due to my domain being listed on SpamCop. Their FAQ suggests that the cause of my listing was my email server sending back the bounce emails.

As for this Steve guy who received the flood of bounce messages, I lost all sympathy for him when he started whining about calling the Feds.. seriously, what are they going to do, write a new BS law?

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