Hello Julian, On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:18:35 +0100 GMT (14/08/02, 18:18 +0700 GMT), Julian Beach (Lists) wrote:
>> I have seen some small time spammers get TOSd through SpamCop and I'm >> sure their blacklist is worthwhile but it's not going to reduce your >> spam if you report things to them. IMHO. JBL> I would agree with this (as a paying user of SpamCop). It is probably JBL> helpful to report things to SpamCop so that open relays and proxies get JBL> identified, but I found that I had far more success at terminating JBL> spammer's accounts when I did the investigating and reporting myself. The amount of feedbacks may be less via SpamCop than by a personal mail to the postmaster, but I think this may be because they know that SpamCop is an automated service, which just requires them to act, and it is more likely that they reply to you when you send a mail to them directly. But I think that those postmasters that act responsibly will act when they receive a spam complaint, regardless of whether they receive it via SpamCop or by a user. But what if SpamCop has received over 26,000 bounces from iasiaworks? Do you think it would sense to send a spam report directly? (BTW there is an American company behind them, even though their head office appears to be in Hong Kong.) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. On a Korean kitchen knife... Warning: Keep out of children. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta1 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
