On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 15:26:46 -0500, Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> b) You can drop the complainer from the Edstat list. SpamCop >will tell you who filed the reports, since you have to know that >to be able to show that they were voluntary, opt-in, members. No, SpamCop will preserve the anonymity of complainers. (I'm a Spamcop member, and am quite familiar with their procedures). Spamcop anonymizes complaints. You can write to the complainer through an anonymized address, and they can choose to reveal their address or not. The only way to convince Spamcop that you are completely innocent is to show that subscriptions to the list cannot be faked, i.e. you use confirmed opt-in (where the subscriber needs to respond to a confirmation email before the subscription is activated). The reason for this policy is that uncomfirmed subscriptions are often used as a way to harass people who complain about spam: they are subscribed to numerous mailing lists, and it's a pain to unsubscribe. I read the newsgroup, sci.stat.edu. I think a better solution than requiring all posters to the newsgroupn to subscribe is just to drop the connection between the newsgroup and the mailing list. Duncan Murdoch . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
