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SpamCop Blocking Some Gmail Servers

Brian McWilliams writes on the Spam Kings blog:

At least three mail systems operated by Google Mail have been placed on the SpamCop blacklist.

According to the SpamCop site, the systems (IP address 66.249.92.192, 66.249.92.198, and 66.249.92.201) were responsible for spam sent to SpamCop spamtrap accounts in the past week. The systems, which are part of a large collection of servers with the name uproxy.gmail.com, have also been reported by SpamCop users as a source of spam.

As we've noted before, Gmail is interesting from a spammer's perspective because it doesn't show the sender's IP address in the message headers. That could give spammers a layer of protection.

posted by Fergie @ 1/29/2006 12:06:00 PM