PBW site blacklisted by SpamCop???

DavidG · #1 June 25th, 2003, 01:07 AM

I use a program called MailWasher that has recently started telling my that my e-mails from the PBW site are "Origin blacklisted by SpamCop" Anyone know what's up with that??

Jack Simth · #2 June 25th, 2003, 02:52 AM

If I were to guess, I would say that your program detects automatically generated E-mails and PBW sends them out automatically. It should have an list somewhere for "trusted sources" or "trusted people" or "subscriptions" or some such; check the help files.

DavidG · #3 June 25th, 2003, 02:58 AM

Yea I think it does have a section for friends or trusted sources. I just can't understand why it sundenly started saying the PBW stuff was blacklisted. I've had the program for several months now and it is just today it started saying the PBW stuff was blacklisted.

It's not really a big problem for me I was just curious if there was any reason (outside my own systems quirks) why the emails would get flagged that way.

Jack Simth · #4 June 25th, 2003, 03:03 AM

It could be that the program counts e-mails from particular sources, and blacklists the source if that count goes over a particular threshold in a particular lenght of time, or keeps track of old e-mails and blacklists the source if too many of them are too similar or any other number of possibilities.

geoschmo · #5 June 25th, 2003, 03:16 AM

It also might be that we use aliases for emails. For example the nags and stuff you get when you haven't uploaded your turn appear to come from the game owner, but actually they come from pbw. We do this for your conveinence to make it easy to contact the game owner by just hitting reply. But this is a classic tactic of spammers to trick you into reading their emails and throws up a big red flag for many anti-spam programs. In fact I believe this is the number one reason for the problems some people have with using the email turn functions reliably.

Geoschmo