[70371] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spamcop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Brenton)
Tue May 11 18:08:46 2004
From: Chris Brenton <cbrenton@chrisbrenton.org>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <008a01c43797$8f99d7b0$7800000a@HP13212260802>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 18:11:49 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 16:35, Guðbjörn S. Hreinsson wrote:
>
> Possible someone on the list didn't understand the content, didn't
> realize this was sent via a mailing lists and submitted this as a spam
> message to SPAMCOP. Less likely someone didn't know how to
> get off the mailing list and this was the result.
>
> In both cases the submitter exercised bad judgement. But the mailing
> list could be more helpful as well.
Further, Spamcop should implement some form of check to verify that the
e-mail is in fact spam before they go pointing the finger and/or
blocking mail servers. The problem of end users leveraging Spamcop to
get them off of mailing lists or a simple way of DoSsing a discussion
forum would become mute if some form of sanity checking was in place.
Cheers,
Chris
