From davidt at desertsw.org  Fri Nov 21 18:57:20 2008
From: davidt at desertsw.org (David Topping)
Date: Fri Nov 21 19:00:05 2008
Subject: [Schelp] SpamCop Email Service down! (NNTP and forum as well)
Message-ID: <9023f348-df3b-4e1e-94dc-ff542d3d821b@r40g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>

Did a meteor fall out of the sky and land in Georgia? All connectivity
to the various SpamCop-related services hosted there has been dead for
hours. This includes the POP, IMAP, and SMTP services associated with
"spamcop.net" (and cesmail.net) email accounts, as well as the SpamCop
Forums and the SpamCop Newsgroups.

Can you say, "too may eggs in one basket"? If the Newsgroups were
moved here to GoogleGroups, at least we'd be able to do user-to-user
communications, updates, etc. I'm not sure if the venerable Wazoo
checks here or not, because he's probably the only person in the world
with any non-Internet contact info on J.T., the owner/operator of
those services.

DT
From LouKing at starband.net  Sun Nov 23 09:52:33 2008
From: LouKing at starband.net (Lou)
Date: Sun Nov 23 09:55:04 2008
Subject: [Schelp] Re: SpamCop Email Service down! (NNTP and forum as well)
In-Reply-To: <9023f348-df3b-4e1e-94dc-ff542d3d821b@r40g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>
References: <9023f348-df3b-4e1e-94dc-ff542d3d821b@r40g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>
Message-ID: <6a9e4$49296e2f$94404136$2414@STARBAND.NET>

David Topping wrote, On 11/21/2008 6:57 PM:
> Did a meteor fall out of the sky and land in Georgia? All connectivity
> to the various SpamCop-related services hosted there has been dead for
> hours. 
> 
> DT
I don't know David. I have not been having any trouble reporting this 
weekend. SC NG seems to have been working for me also.  I do see on the 
forum that the SC email was down for a while - don't use it so don't 
know first hand.  I would suggest other connectivity issues.

Considering the adds and spamming I see on the GoogleGroups I am members 
of not sure that would work well/better. Lets be real, can you see Wazoo 
dealing with GoogleGRoups?

Lou
From D.Gray at picture.invalid  Mon Nov 24 22:17:20 2008
From: D.Gray at picture.invalid (Dorian Gray)
Date: Mon Nov 24 22:20:03 2008
Subject: [Schelp] Problem with mailhost setup for Cambridge University
Message-ID: <D.Gray-FBB462.03171925112008@unknown.hwng.net>

For your attention and action please:

When configuring a University of Cambridge (UK) email address, like 
not_an_address@cam.ac.uk, there are approaching 100 hosts/domains and 
relaying IPs that come up in the list.

Many of these are NOTHING to do with Cambridge University, and I think 
they are in the list by error.  Perhaps they appeared because some users 
who were forwarding between different mailhosts configured their 
mailhosts in the wrong order.

To be specific, the list of hosts/domains include the following:
*.bham.ac.uk (Birmingham University)
*.imperial.ac.uk (Imperial College, University of London)
*.dur.ac.uk (Durham University)
*.ic.ac.uk (Imperial College, University of London)
*.york.ac.uk (University of York)
*.community.net.uk
ocms.ac.uk (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies)
*.brad.ac.uk (Bradford University)
ac.uk

I believe that all of these should be removed.
Also, I the Mailhost is given the name by the system of "OCMS", which 
matches a domain in the above list, and perhaps indicates that someone 
at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies was the first to add the 
cam.ac.uk domain but registered his mailhosts in the wrong order.

Cheers.