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Re: SpamCop



I also use spamassassin, and I can confirm Todd's bad experiences
with spamcop.  Stay away from these guys.

On 2003-10-14 13:16:41 -0400, Todd wrote:
> From: Todd <Freedom_Lover@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: mutt-users@xxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:16:41 -0400
> Subject: Re: SpamCop
> Reply-To: Todd <Freedom_Lover@xxxxxxxxx>
> Mail-Followup-To: mutt-users@xxxxxxxx
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> 
> Bruno Lustosa wrote:
> > Does anyone here use spamcop or any other service to deal with spam?
> > I'm using spamassassin to filter the messages (and run a script about
> > once a week to feed the bayesian filter), and once a day, I enter the
> > spam folder, tag all new messages (checking if they are actually spam),
> > and then forward them all to spamcop.
> 
> I use SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor.  I completely avoid SpamCop as
> their practices are incredibly brain-dead.  They will happily blacklist
> an entire class c network if on of the IP's on it sends spam.  This is
> *way* to broad a blacklist to be useful.  Their maintainers are also
> quite rude and arrogant in responding to the stupidity of their
> policies.
> 
> Here's a short article on SpamCop blacklisting Declan McCullagh's
> Politech mailing list, (which has never sent a single spam and likely
> never will):
> 
>     http://www.politechbot.com/p-04121.html
> 
> I have a small server that's was blacklisted like this as well, which
> came as a bit of a surprise.  I didn't even waste time talking with
> the spamcop folks about it.  I figure that anyone using their service
> should expect to lose plenty of legitimate mail and if so, that's
> their problem, not mine.
> 
> More positively, submitting stuff to Vipul's Razor is pretty easy (and
> using Pyzor or DCC would be just as simple).  I tag all messages in my
> spam folder that match "! ~h RAZOR2" and then run a macro which pipes
> the messages out to spamassassin:
> 
> macro index S "<enter-command>set pipe_split\n<pipe-entry>spamassassin 
> -r\n<enter-command>unset pipe_split\n" "report message(s) to Vipul's Razor"
> 
> -- 
> Todd        OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp
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>     -- Mae West
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