Re: I'm curious, how does Amazon.com end up on the SCBL?

Pete wrote:
> It's a reputable site that doesn't spam, as far as I know, yet it
> still ends up in my Spamcop spam mail.  How does this happen?

You have configured your spam filter to use sorbs including the sorbs
127.0.0.6 which is the sorbs-spam list.

Sorbs-spam list is built by sorbs using these criteria
http://www.us.sorbs.net/faq/spamdb.shtml  and requires the IP owner to
pay a US $50 'fine' to sorbs designated charity or good cause -- which
many providers are disinclined to do -- to be delisted, and which
listing will recur if a spamtrap or whatever is hit.

> Here is the URL for the block:
www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z933385992z1be4a0540a738d21ef328cdc495cccc3z

That is a straightup amazon item, where straightup means from = source =
spamvertiser.

If you want to receive amazon promotionals, you should whitelist them.
If you don't want to use a list like sorbs which has to be paid to get
off, you should take it out of your spamfilter system.  Sorbs has quite
a few different lists, and not everyone should use all or any of them

           http.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.2
         socks.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.3
          misc.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.4
          smtp.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.5
          spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.6
           web.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.7
         block.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.8
        zombie.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.9
           dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.10
       badconf.rhsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.11
        nomail.rhsbl.sorbs.net    127.0.0.12


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin