Both, because as an administrator I've begun to identify spamcop as a
lightning-rod for incompetent users, and treat them as such.
That isn't fair to the competent users like yourself, but life isn't fair --
and I've wasted way too much time on useless spamcop reports.
My favorite example: someone signed up for one of my customer's mailing
lists, then reported the "spam" he received through spamcop.
The original subscription and the complaint came from the same class-c. The
subscription was a double-opt-in, so it was received by, and answered by,
someone with access to that mailbox. The sign-up and complaint were three
weeks apart.
-- Lynn
-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Levine
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 8:17 PM
To: Opensrs-Dev
Subject: RE: Whats' that anti-spam site that some people on this list use ?
"Lynn W. Taylor" wrote:
>
> Spamcop is, IMHO, a waste of time.
Waste of time for you as an administrator, or for me as a user reporting
spam?
> So far this year, 100% of the spamcop reports we received were stupid newbie
> AOL-type people who signed up for mailing lists, and then complained when
> they GOT MAIL -- or, they were simply misdirected (or misguided).
>
> ... but we did investigate each one.
>
> We haven't stopped reading them, but I'm very close to sending all spamcop
> reports to the bit-bucket.
I've found that though I can do what it does on my own, it saves me a
lot of time - don't blame the service, blame the icompetent user.
--Josh Levine
