> SpamCop is a semi-automated spam reporting/complaining service that >actually gets spammers kicked off of ISPs and interferes with their >"business".
It interferes with everyone's business. Take the following scenario: I email a customer with confirmation that his order has been despatched. He stores my email address in his address book. But he's using Windoze and has a "virus". The "virus" grabs my email address and uses it as a >From address to spam everyone else in his address book. Some of them report my email address to SpamCop which forwards the information to my overworked ISP. He doesn't have time to argue and shuts down my account until such time as I can prove that I didn't send spam. How do I prove that? Well, I have to ask my ISP to wade through my email server records for the particular day to see if those recipients were included. Hang on a minute - the email addresses have not been divulged and the ISP is too busy to do a search anyway... Basically, the system doesn't work because it relies on human beings and guesswork. Martin Pickering (UK) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
