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--- X-plug: http://spamNEWS.com Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:58:53 -0400 To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> From: Neil Schwartzman <neil@peteMOSS.com> Subject: SpamCop Sends (sells?) User Reports to Cyveillance This is the first post to a thread in USENET's infamous NANAE. Apparently, paying customers of SpamCop can opt-out permanently from sending these reports, freebie customers can do so on a message-by-message basis (I did NOT verify the former myself, since I do not use the SpamCop service for fundamental reason that their BL is so broken as to have listed several legitimate, non-spammed email lists, the names of which come to mind at present ;-> ) http://www.cyveillance.com/ ===== From: John Phillips <jhphillips180.insert.@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Subject: Has SpamCop Sold Its Soul To Cyveillance? NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 19:30:20 EDT SpamCop has started sending copies of all of its reports by default to Cyveillance. Paying members are now able to opt out after many complaints were made. Purportedly, Cyveillance will use the reports to check for copyright infringement for its clients. Cyveillance has clearly stated that it mines web sites for e-mail addresses to also sell to its clients. Cyveillance is paying for the service. Has Julian sold his soul to the Devil? Regards, John Phillips -- Neil Schwartzman - Editor & Publisher peteMOSS Publications, Industry & Trade Journals <http://spamFLAMES.com><http://peteMOSS.com> spamNEWS is now a daily BLOG & RSS Feed: <http://spamnews.com/blog/> -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Internet access providers, companies that engage in the business of connecting people to the Internet for profit ... assume the role of Internet censors, arbitrarily closing accounts of those of whom they disapprove." - Martha (C&S) Siegel --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------