[Risk] Problem with mailing list? (for Matt)

I have recieved strange letter from contests-help@codewalkers.com. It says:




Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the
contests@codewalkers.com mailing list.

I'm working for my owner, who can be reached
at contests-owner@codewalkers.com.


Messages to you from the contests mailing list seem to
have been bouncing. I've attached a copy of the first bounce
message I received.

If this message bounces too, I will send you a probe. If the probe
bounces,
I will remove your address from the contests mailing list,
without further notice.


I've kept a list of which messages from the contests mailing list have
bounced from your address.

Here are the message numbers:

27

--- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received.

Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 77024 invoked for bounce); 2 Jul 2003 20:44:25 -0000
Date: 2 Jul 2003 20:44:25 -0000
From: MAILER-DAEMON@codewalkers.com
To: contests-return-27-@codewalkers.com
Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at codewalkers.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<andrei_nikolov@mail.bg>:
193.201.172.114 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 Service unavailable; Client host [198.78.66.214]
blocked using bl.spamcop.net; Blocked - see
http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?198.78.66.214
Giving up on 193.201.172.114.




If there is a problem, it is probably with my mail provider or this bl.spamcop.net... What shuold I do?

spamcop.net seems unavailable right now...I will deal with them when their web site is back up...

Very strange....according to:

http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?198.78.66.214

my IP is not blocked...it is interesting that on that page it says that spamcop should not be used in a production environment....

Could you forward that email to support@yourisp.com? See what they have to say?

OK, I'll forward it... Now I'm recieving some messages from the mailing list, but I'm not sure I'm recieving all of them...

Here is the replay from the support, with my, not so professional translation from Bulgarian to English



The IP has been definitely blocked at this time. Otherwise there is no way for us to get that URL... Here is another for the same IP:
http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=198.78.66.214

Here is a table from there:
Listing history for past 30 days:
delisted: 29 June 2003 y. 00:25:02 +0300
listed: 27 June 2003 y. 19:45:04 +0300
delisted: 26 June 2003 y. 22:35:03 +0300
listed: 25 June 2003 y. 08:45:03 +0300
delisted: 24 June 2003 y. 23:50:08 +0300
listed: 24 June 2003 y. 23:10:04 +0300
delisted: 24 June 2003 y. 01:20:02 +0300
listed: 23 June 2003 y. 11:40:03 +0300
delisted: 23 June 2003 y. 07:45:12 +0300
listed: 23 June 2003 y. 06:30:02 +0300

This shows that it's not blocked now, but it has been blocked before.

> spamcop should not be used in a production environment....

This is writen on many of the software that is used not only by us, but from You too, belive me. spamcop works from years, though, and is more stable than many others, for which, this is not written anywhere.

----End of quotation


I've feeled I should show you this answer, just to be fair to either sides... Thanks you for the time you spend on this...