On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 21:20:07 -0400
David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
> Cisco owns IronPort, who owns spamcop, but neither provide any money
> to spamcop. Spamcop used to be partially supported by CES, but they
> bailed.
> Spamhaus is a different company, and is arguably evil.
>
Cisco owns IronPort, who owns spamcop, but neither provide any money to
spamcop. Spamcop used to be partially supported by CES, but they bailed.
Spamhaus is a different company, and is arguably evil.
--dave
On 17/08/17 08:48 PM, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
On 17 August 2017 at 19:30,
On 17 August 2017 at 19:30, David Collier-Brown via talk
wrote:
> Spamcop.net should not be compared to the extortionist sites, nor the
> email vendors. It's honest, and living on a shoestring.
>
On a shoestring? They're part of Cisco. They run an RBL, so they can still
block
On 17/08/17 06:40 PM, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
On 17 August 2017 at 12:54, David Collier-Brown > wrote:
If they don't voluntarily agree to stop emailing me, I drop them
into spamcop form below:
^u^a^c... ^p and they get their
On 17 August 2017 at 12:54, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> If they don't voluntarily agree to stop emailing me, I drop them into
> spamcop form below:
>
> ^u^a^c... ^p and they get their corporate email provider flagged as a
> spammer.
>
> This usually gets them told there will
> Okay, well you still get the occasional manual sent spam from a public
> email account by some opportunist, but I mean that the senseless junk
> is all gone...
Senseless junk has been replaced by Sales people who use auto-follow-up
software to email you every third day if you don't reply. It
On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:16:27 -0400
Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> On 16 August 2017 at 09:09, Stewart C. Russell via talk
> wrote:
> > On 2017-08-16 08:10 AM, ac via talk wrote:
> > > Six Golden Rules: ** Spam is basically dead... **
> > … if you run your
On 16/08/17 03:45 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
Agreed. But I'd take it from a slightly different perspective that splits
the issue.
IMO the volume of spam has not abated, but its effectiveness has.
I use gMail
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> Agreed. But I'd take it from a slightly different perspective that splits
> the issue.
>
> IMO the volume of spam has not abated, but its effectiveness has.
>
> I use gMail for a significant amount of my incoming mail,
On 16 August 2017 at 09:09, Stewart C. Russell via talk
wrote:
> On 2017-08-16 08:10 AM, ac via talk wrote:
> >
> > Six Golden Rules: ** Spam is basically dead... **
>
> … if you run your own mailserver. This list's members are not
> representative of the general population.
>
On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 08:40:03 -0400
Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> ac via talk wrote:
> > 1. Bounce when no rDNS (exim/postfix/sendmail/qmail - 2 second
> > conf)
> Sometimes people don't have access to configure Reverse DNS (or PTR)
> as they are sending with a dynamic IP address.
On 08/16/2017 08:40 AM, Myles Braithwaite via talk wrote:
ac via talk wrote:
1. Bounce when no rDNS (exim/postfix/sendmail/qmail - 2 second conf)
Sometimes people don't have access to configure Reverse DNS (or PTR) as
they are sending with a dynamic IP address. This isn't common but at
least
On 2017-08-16 08:10 AM, ac via talk wrote:
>
> Six Golden Rules: ** Spam is basically dead... **
… if you run your own mailserver. This list's members are not
representative of the general population.
As a list mod, I can very much assure you that spam is in robust health
indeed.
Stewart
ac via talk wrote:
> 1. Bounce when no rDNS (exim/postfix/sendmail/qmail - 2 second conf)
Sometimes people don't have access to configure Reverse DNS (or PTR) as
they are sending with a dynamic IP address. This isn't common but at
least for GTALUG there are five or six people who host their email
Hi All,
I posted this on another list, then I thought that I should also share here...
Six Golden Rules: ** Spam is basically dead... **
1. Bounce when no rDNS (exim/postfix/sendmail/qmail - 2 second conf)
2. Use 10+ dnsbl with properly configured spamassasin (cache locally) -
with 2 (or more,
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