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  3. September 2002

Re: Let's be careful about going to SpamCop, maybe

At 03:13 PM 9/20/2002, you wrote in MIDRANGE-L:

As far as I am concerned, SpamCop is an extortion scheme
and I think they are violating federal interference with
transmission laws.

I disagree ... SpamCop is providing a useful service ... nobody is FORCED
to use them for reporting ... and nobody is FORCED to use them for blocking.

I happen to use them for both ... it has cut the spam I received by 90%
(more or less, I didn't do a statistical analysis).

The fact that midrange.com uses them for blocking has actually HELPED
people on these lists find out that they had open relays that were being
exploited.


But anybody dumb enough to use them is welcome to them.

Well, um... ahem.


PS I receive over 200 spam messages a day, so I understand
the problem.

And if you used spamcop's dnsbl or one of the other black lists, that would
probably be cut down to 10 or so.

david

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