Re: SpamCop Issues - Just Curious

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> Tue, 2 May 2006 08:33:19 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamcop.geeks
Organization SpamCop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
User wrote:

>>>   xxx.xxx.xxx is an "open relay"
>
>
> Dummy me !!!!
>
> The message in the report is:
>
> xxx.xxx.xxx. is an "open proxy", not "relay".

Now that makes sense.  The vast majority of spams are being injected by
proxified trojan user IPs which are very often listed, most often in CBL
which gets them into XBL of spamhaus.

The parser's verbose informs about the proxy database listing like that.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin