[KLUG Members] SPAM and no HAM

[members@kalamazoolinux.org]

>Actually, over and over, SpamCop does recommends NOT blocking
>messages using the blacklist.  The blacklist is intended for Holding
>messages for later Review.  I say "over-and-over" because I
>subscribed to one of their mailing lists for a while (two days?) and
>I saw this message about 3 times.
What I was giving was a somewhat simplified redition of what happens,
largely in the interests of brevity (which has now been blown! :) ).
Actually, there is very little that a spam reporting user does to 
directly block anything. 

>However, when I went to SpamCop's site and read the actual message
>posted, I see that they call it a blocking list.  So, there's some
>confusion between what they are saying in their help mailing list and
>what they're saying on their web site.
No, merely differences in wording, from what I see. Confusion is some-
times in the mind of the beholder.

SpamCop does not blacklist sites lightly, and certainly not on the 
basis of a single spam report. It is clear that there have to be a
number of spam reports, reporting difference incidents, over a rela-
tively short period of time.

>Note, that the web site DOES say that the list is experimental and 
>should NOT be used in a production environment.
I have no idea what this means, in English. The Internet is, in many
ways, the ultimate "production" environment, and SpamCop provides a
service which really does block e-mail, no tags, no fooling around.
When they were contacted, they weren't talking about things like it
was an experiment, they were (and are) dead serious, and "for-real".

>So, maybe that's where they're coming from.
Maybe, once upon a time, or officially, for legal reasons.

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