Re: [OFFTOPIC] Spamcop

From: Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 01:53:00 EST


david+cert@blue-labs.org (David Ford) wrote on 13.09.02 in <3D8167A0.1080009@blue-labs.org>:

> It was listed and promptly delisted three hours later. No anti-spam
> measure is perfect, all have flaws

... and this one appears to have a terminal flaw. Using complaints without
verification to automatically list someone is a bad idea for *exactly* the
same reason that running an open relay is a bad idea - you are at the
mercy of good behaviour of third parties, and if they don't innocents
elsewhere suffer.

Or in other words, spamcop seems to be part of the problem, not part of
the solution.

MfG Kai
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