-----Original Message-----
From: Ian White, G3SEK <G3SEK@ifwtech.com>
To: amps@contesting.com <amps@contesting.com>
Cc: Bill Fisher, W4AN <fisher@akorn.net>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Date: 22 January 2002 10:07
Subject: Re: [AMPS] pills and rc feedback
>
>rich wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>sorry for the late reply - spamcop has the whole of the UK's biggest ISP
>>>blocked so I couldn't post to the reflector. I'm trying this through a
>>>webmail account.
>>>
>>// My ISP is rabidly anti-spam - yet SpamCop managed to label him a
>>source of spam, which naturally blocked yours truly. Perhaps SpamCop was
>>created by spammers?
>>
>...in a subtle move to give anti-spam services a bad name? Well, it
>almost fits the facts.
>
>My ISP was another victim of this useless "service". SpamCop blocks mail
>from any ISP server that has been used to send spam. Sounds like a great
>idea... until you stop and think about it.
Certainly it's a very unsophisticated weapon - blocking individual users at
first, then ISPs if there was a repeated problem would make more sense.
Presumably that would take more lines of code and reduce the opportunity for
a quick buck. Off soapbox.
Steve
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