From: Dennis Oelkers <dennis@...>
Date: 2005-01-06T19:16:02+09:00
Subject: Mailing list gateway getting reportted at SpamCop

Hello list,

during the last few days we are receiving SpamCop-reports concerning the 
submission of mails originating
from one of our host repeatedly. We found out that all of those reports 
are related to someone (or something)
submitting mails from ruby-talk which were forwarded by the Usenet <-> 
mailing list gateway running at our site,
so SpamCop determined the gateway as the origin of those mails.

Those mails were not even close to uce, they are just 100% legitimate 
comp.lang.ruby postings, and it seems
that the person (or the script?) submitting those postings to SpamCop is 
always the same.

Nevertheless we fear that we might get listed in the SpamCop-RBLs, and 
one of my Co-Admins (who is
my supervisor) concluded the situation in our last conversation with the 
sentence "do something so it will stop".
I guess I don't have to explain that "something" may mean "shut the 
gateway down" in the long run.

My questions:
- Do we have the same problem with other mailing list traffic getting 
reported?
- Is it possible to find out who is submitting the legitimate traffic to 
SpamCop, and manually unsubscribe that
  address from ruby-talk?
- Are there really people stupid enough to mix up mail they received 
from a mailing list (and which they probably
  subscribed themself to) with uce, or is it a script which is reporting 
us at SpamCop?
- Does anyone here has experience with SpamCop and false submissions?

I do not want to shut down the gateway in any case, but I might get 
forced to. I hope for your help.

Kind regards,
                  Dennis Oelkers