spamcop now completely broken?

[Stefan Bethke]

Am 28.11.2006 um 12:50 schrieb Nik Clayton:

> Stefan Bethke wrote:
>> Is is just me, or has SpamCop become useless? Two weeks ago, they  
>> were listing apache.org, now they're listing freebsd.org...
>
> Someone (call them A) signs up to a FreeBSD mailing list.
>
> Someone else (call them B) sends spam to the same FreeBSD mailing  
> list.  The mailing list fails to recognise this as spam, and  
> forwards it on to everyone else.
>
> "A"'s system decides that the message is spam (either  
> automatically, or with human involvement).  "A" hasn't realised  
> that the message came through the list, and reports it to SpamCop.
>
> SpamCop lists FreeBSD.org servers as the source of the spam.
>
> Lather, rinse, repeat.

I do understand the mechanics of how Spamcop aquired the listing, but  
they had managed to avoid bogus listings much better in the past.   
Whether the submitters have gotten worse or SpamCops filtering of  
submissions I don't know.


Stefan

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