Godwin Stewart wrote:
Judging from your e-mail address, I gather that you are responsible (at least in part) for the spamcop dnsbl. Thanks! (You are doing the Interneta great service!)
I'm only responsible for it in that I feed their database regularly with between 30 and 40 spams per day. I'm not part of the organisation itself.
As you know Godwin, I report a lot of spam too. I'm gonna climb on the soapbox here to say to all the fine and concientious folks here who manage mail servers, CONTRIBUTE your spam to spamcop. You will be doing a service to yourself (if you use their DNSBL) and to the community.
The efficiency of the reports themselves is debatable. Ask <cough> Verio abuse team what they do about the reports they receive. Well, I know they try their best within the structure. But the effect of feeding the spamcop BL is visible.
If you are so bold as to get a paid spamcop account (you can get free ones as well) and use quick reporting, you don't even have to do any work.
Many of you have old emails that appeared on pages but were never used. I have several of these from the days when we thought it was hip to use a million addresses and wildcard the virtmaps file. Since these were never in any use and are very old, messages to them are forwarded directly to spamcop for reporting. They are all addresses from spam CDROMs and the lamest kind of spam from idiots who think they're gonna !m@k,e m,o:ney! (but don't. They just drown us in spam.)
Please consider helping feed the spamcop BL, it's the only one of its kind I believe. Listed entries disappear automatically after a day or two unlike spewz which you can practically never get off, even if your whole /24 is listed, which happened to me on a Verio ip. ps, Verio did get it off somehow.
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