Cocksparrer - For the record - the quality of Mel's fudge has never been in question - my Mum swears by it even though it clags up her dentures.
Mel - I want you to understand the seriousness of what your "simple mistake" has caused - and I would like anyone reading this to ponder for a moment on just how dangerous the SpamCop service is.
I own a very large chunk of website hosting space on which I host 3 ecommerce sites and a friend's blog and forum site. That server is shared with a number of other people. In total, over 100 commerce sites are hosted on it. Mel's subscription to Ed's BuildaSkill site includes that she receives occasional emails from the forum news sections updating her about important changes or cheap listing days on eBay UK, eBid and similar. Those are the emails reported to SpamCop.
Because they were reported to SpamCop, the data centre reported that the server was blacklisted and no-one could send emails for 24 hours. My hosting space account has been suspended and my three commerce sites and Ed's site locked out (perhaps even purged from the drives) - the datacentre reported all this in an email and then refused to communicate further with me.
The server and site access was taken down at 10:30pm BST last night (4:30am here) within 15 minutes of the spam account alert being issued from SpamCop. I was actually online editing one of the SQL databases at the time the take down occurred - that's how I was able to react so quickly and on so many sites where I know you lurk.
That's a year's worth of sitebuilding and marketing completely down the tubes, not to mention I had only just renewed the domain registrations and hosting account - a lot of money that I will now have to pay to another hosting company to start again from scratch. Money that I cannot afford due to many factors in the online sales world this year.
To you Mel, it may have been a simple mistake, but it has had calamitous effects on my business and on my planned exit from eBay by Christmas, not to mention that I will now not have the time for the planned re-entry to eBid this year. I am out a lot of money and a year's worth of working 20-hour days six days a week. Christmas this year is going to be very Dickensian out here.
"Think before you Click" - it should be a compulsory flashing warning with alarm bells on every pc using SpamCop - it's not a virus assassin, it's a business assassin.
Oh, and just to make things worse - Tomorrow was to have been the 1st anniversary of Ed's BuildaSkill site and a big online party had been planned. That obviously cannot happen now.
(Finally, what I said I would have you removed from was the membership of Ed's site, so that you received no more emails about the news in the online auction world - as those were the emails you had reported to SpamCop, you obviously didn't want to receive them).
Gaz
Still not a happy bunny