RE: [SURBL-Discuss] Theory about FPs for sites with open subscriptions

Recently, a high-profile news web site (ranked about 1,500 on alexa.com) had the IP address of the server sending their newsletters blocked by bl.spamcop.net

I contacted someone from SpamCop and they mentioned that, upon investigation, this site had an "open loop" newsletter subscription.

Recognizing that open loop subscriptions is a bad policy... this is one of the reasons that, IMHO, SpamCop's RBL is much too aggressive to use for all-or-none, "yes/no" blocking. (Though I do use it for auditing.)

More importantly, I hope that this kind of stuff does NOT **automatically** get propagated from SpamCop to SURBL? (Though I'm largely unfamiliar with this process.)

Rob McEwen