Have you ever been accused of sending SPAM?

It's comes with the territory of running a website that sometimes emails its users... it can be a royal pain in the ass...

Who contacts you to complain, the individuals, or the companies they have email accounts with?

Nope

I've been told that my systems have been used to send spam. Problem is they are reporting on an IP address range that I haven't been connected with for at least seven years.

> It's comes with the territory of running a website that sometimes
> emails its users... it can be a royal pain in the ass...

How did you find out?

Did you get yourself removed? How does that work?

It's not that I get contacted, it's that emails my sites send get tagged as SPAM and are never received. Sometimes, they bounce back to me, other times the user complains they never got it. What happens is out of my control for the most part, but my users complain to me. It's worse on my other site (where users trade with each other). Having a working email is critical, so if I get a bounce, I de-activate their account until they get their email working.

> Did you get yourself removed? How does that work?

A few times, I've gone through the trouble of contacting the ISP to make sure they stop tagging my site's email as SPAM... and that has fixed the problem... I did it with MSN/hotmail and AOL, that I recall. For smaller ISPs, I generally don't bother... I make the user fix it.

Ah I see. Annoying!

Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

No. Never sent that.

No, I am not a spammer.

I even blocked my own aunt's emails because she was sending too much GOD SPAM.

No. I didn't even know I was capable of sending it.

> |> Did you get yourself removed? How does that work?
>
> A few times, I've gone through the trouble of contacting the ISP to
> make sure they stop tagging my site's email as SPAM... and that has
> fixed the problem... I did it with MSN/hotmail and AOL, that I recall.
> For smaller ISPs, I generally don't bother... I make the user fix
> it.

Have you ever had to contact a blacklisting service to resolve this stuff?
Is it easier to contact the ISPs directly?

I wasn't but they thought I was.

Yes, but only becuase my friend can be a real be-otch and she doesn't want ANY forwards sent to her work e-mail (although it is OK for her to send them) and she doesn't have a personal e-mail addy either.

nope

Not personally accused, but there are some email services that won't accept most emails from Hotmail or Yahoo. My email bounces and the message says that too many messages have been sent from that address and that my email has been flagged as spam. This is only with email services with very stringent spam filtering.

no

No and hate it myself........ I have several pieces of software on my puter to try to avoid receiving as well as sending the sh*t.

No.

> Yes, but only becuase my friend can be a real be-otch and she doesn't
> want ANY forwards sent to her work e-mail (although it is OK for her
> to send them) and she doesn't have a personal e-mail addy either.
>

That stinks.

I think you are being generous with your definition of your friend....

Happy Thanksgiving in spite of it.

No.

Yes, when I first got into the Internet on AOL. I forget what for, but something said I had to send an invite or something to a certain number of people, so I just ripped some e-mails off AOL message boards. Got myself reported for that one.