FC: Report spam to SpamCop, get listed as a spammer

[Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>]

I'm not picking on SpamCop. I've covered unfriendly behavior on the part
of other "antispam" service, like (earlier this week) Mailblocks:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04620.html

And in February we had a five-message thread on SpamArrest:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=spamarrest

But SpamCop is the undeniable market leader in antisocial behavior and
recidivist overblocking, including adding my Politech server to its
"spamlist" three times:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=spamcop

Jericho, below, is a well-known security expert (and curmudgeon) in the DC
area. I've also heard from someone who hosts a list at attrition.org who's
now dealing with many megabytes of bounce messages that haven't gone
through to his subscribers, all thanks to SpamCop...

-Declan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 20:15:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: security curmudgeon <jericho@attrition.org>
To: abuse@spamcop.net
Subject: jeez this is getting old, REMOVE US


http://spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=66.80.146.7


guys, look at the report. it is clear that we were reporting OTHER people
for spamming us. and you geniuses blackhole us for it? one is a
spamassassin report, the other is me manually forwarding mail to
infosat.net who spammed us.

and don't give me crap about taking days to remove us, i know it doesnt
take that long.








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