Soldato
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[RANT]
I've had a few emails returned to me recently, each one informing me that they had been rejected because of spam.
I'm wondering what on earth they are talking about! Then I realise that some spammer has probably got hold of my email address from one of my domain names and is using that. No problem methinks, I'll write to the network administrator and let them know.
Wrong!
Spamcop has received some spam that comes from my ISP's IP address. Problem is my IP address is a proxy server. Without going into details (as it isn't really that important to my rant) every single person in the country I live in has to connect through one ISP. That ISP monitors internet activity on behalf of the government so we all have to connect through a gateway on to a specific IP address on a specific port before we reach the outside world.
Spamcop has listed that IP address as being responsible for spam. Every single user on the ISP who sends an email to a server that is running spamcop will have their email returned/bounced.
Did someone send spam? Well according to spamcop the spam was received by a "spam trap", a secret email address that they don't publicise. It wasn't reported by one of their users or by anyone else, a spam trap received the spam. They've told me it was most likely an out-of-office reply or a challenge from some other anti-spam software that has been misdirected.
I've asked them to unblock it and they tell me that until my ISP does something about it, it will remain blacklisted. They've told me that it could be that someone has a trojan on their machine etc etc.
Until the ISP finds out who it is, I can't send email to specific people.
How bloody crazy is that!
[/RANT OVER]
I've had a few emails returned to me recently, each one informing me that they had been rejected because of spam.
I'm wondering what on earth they are talking about! Then I realise that some spammer has probably got hold of my email address from one of my domain names and is using that. No problem methinks, I'll write to the network administrator and let them know.
Wrong!
Spamcop has received some spam that comes from my ISP's IP address. Problem is my IP address is a proxy server. Without going into details (as it isn't really that important to my rant) every single person in the country I live in has to connect through one ISP. That ISP monitors internet activity on behalf of the government so we all have to connect through a gateway on to a specific IP address on a specific port before we reach the outside world.
Spamcop has listed that IP address as being responsible for spam. Every single user on the ISP who sends an email to a server that is running spamcop will have their email returned/bounced.
Did someone send spam? Well according to spamcop the spam was received by a "spam trap", a secret email address that they don't publicise. It wasn't reported by one of their users or by anyone else, a spam trap received the spam. They've told me it was most likely an out-of-office reply or a challenge from some other anti-spam software that has been misdirected.
I've asked them to unblock it and they tell me that until my ISP does something about it, it will remain blacklisted. They've told me that it could be that someone has a trojan on their machine etc etc.
Until the ISP finds out who it is, I can't send email to specific people.
How bloody crazy is that!
[/RANT OVER]