A flippant, but true, response.
Almost every time a sender I'm talking to is dealing with a Spamhaus issue, they ask me, "Why now? Why did I get blacklisted today, when I've emailed this very same list three times previously." The answer I have, might be kind of flip, but I think it's appropriate: "Do you get a ticket every time you speed?"
Have you ever tried telling a police officer, "But I drive down this street at a hundred miles an hour three times a week. Why are you only ticketing me now?"
Just like that police officer aiming a radar gun at you, a Spamhaus listing is typically not an automated process. A real live person had to manually review spamtrap hits from a certain IP address on a certain day, and it is probably true that they're not watching every single IP address twenty four hours a day.
Heck, maybe it's *because* they hit this list multiple times that they caught someone's attention.
ReplyDeleteThe first time might have generated a FBL report, unsubscribe or abuse report and the fact that no action was taken might be the very reason for blacklisting.