On Friday, December 21, 2001, at 01:53 PM, Chris Reinhardt wrote:
> If you really want to handle spam in style, then spamcop is > your best bet. > They have a nice rich feature set with filtering, automatic reporting, > forwarding, ect...ect.. Spamcop is a wonderful "feel good" toy. You will really feel good that you've "reported" your spam. I've worked the ISP end of things. SpamCop reports are a) normally misdirected b) generally inaccurate c) frequently abused. Julian Haight, who runs SpamCop is unwilling to work with ISPs to fix problems with his tool. He *has* recently fixed many fundamental flaws in his code, but hasn't attacked the flaws in conception which plague spamcop. It really rankles me to see folks recommending it, for as far as reporting spam goes, it's practically worthless. Sure makes you feel good, tho. I'm sure that one could roll a much better solution themselves in Perl. --B
