[122991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Noel Butler)
Fri Feb 26 00:17:56 2010
From: Noel Butler <noel.butler@ausics.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20100225224640.94928e6a.reed@reedloden.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:17:13 +1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 22:46 -0600, Reed Loden wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:14:37 -0800
> Shon Elliott <shon@unwiredbb.com> wrote:
>
> > Anyone from Facebook or Spamcop lurking around to look into this? It's quite
> > annoying.. I can't imagine how many other users are scratching their heads on
> > this one...
>
> I'm a long-time SpamCop member, so I forwarded your mail to the
> deputies. They are aware that facebook's servers have been
> sporadically listed, and one of them specifically said the following:
>
> "Not much we can do about the listings. They're sending spam to our
> traps in large enough numbers that raises the score to a listing level.
> If Facebook were to follow best practices the spam complaints and
> trap hits would drop to levels that keeps them from getting listed."
>
That's more than fair IMO
not forgetting facebook is full of wankers, so they just have one more
avenue to spam/harras do the usual miscreant things, so I bloody well
hope no DNSBL whitelists or gives them (or anyone) preferential
treatment
> ~reed
>
