[AMPS] pills and rc feedback

[rich]

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian White, G3SEK <G3SEK@ifwtech.com>
>To: amps@contesting.com <amps@contesting.com>
>Cc: Bill Fisher, W4AN <fisher@akorn.net>
>Date: 22 January 2002 10:07
>Subject: Re: [AMPS] pills and rc feedback
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>>rich wrote:
>>>
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>>>>
>>>>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.
>
//   My ISP said he tried SpamCop and that it is free.   However, he 
found it to be somewhat less than problem-free, so he stopped using it.   
 

cheers, Steve

-  R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734,AG6K, 
www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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