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Subject: [AMPS] pills and rc feedback
From: 2@vc.net (2)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 06:58:55 -0800
>
>rich wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>sorry for the late reply - spamcop has the whole of the UK's biggest ISP
>>>blocked so I couldn't post to the reflector. I'm trying this through a
>>>webmail account.
>>>
>>//    My ISP is rabidly anti-spam - yet SpamCop managed to label him a
>>source of spam, which naturally blocked yours truly.  Perhaps SpamCop was
>>created by spammers?
>>
>...in a subtle move to give anti-spam services a bad name?  Well, it 
>almost fits the facts.
>
//   Indeed.  Shades of Orwell's "1984"?

>My ISP was another victim of this useless "service". SpamCop blocks mail 
>from any ISP server that has been used to send spam. Sounds like a great 
>idea... until you stop and think about it.
>
>ISPs hate spam even more than we do, because it clogs up their servers. 
>Reputable ISPs - the vast majority - will zap a spammer immediately on 
>the first offence. But gung-ho SpamCop has already blacklisted their 
>outgoing servers.
>
//   And there's the fly in the ointment.  SpamCop is like having a 
vaccine that kills half of those innoculated.

>For you and me, it means we can't send to any list that uses the SpamCop 
>service - like AMPS - until SpamCop times-out our ISP's "offence" after 
>a few days.
>
>So SpamCop did nothing to stop the spammer - the ISP did that. SpamCop 
>only makes the innocent suffer after the event.
>
>SpamCop does have a "whitelist" facility that could override the 
>automatic blocking... but that is not being used for AMPS.
>
>AMPS has been very quiet recently. I wonder how much of this is 
>self-inflicted?

//  I was quiet only because my posts were being blocked.  

-  R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734,AG6K, 
www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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