Thanks michael... I was pretty sure this was the case but wanted
confirmation.
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Sue Morton
"michael lefevre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Sue Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> 9c977i$o0d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:9c977i$o0d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Apologies if this has been covered, I haven't been reading the NG's
> lately.
> > (Did a quick search and didn't turn anything up...)
>
> don't think it has...
>
> [snip]
> > I used SamSpade for Windows (SMTP verify) to confirm
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > is not available. To my surprise, SamSpade says the account is active.
> > (Others I have tested @excite come back with "invalid address".) So I'm
> > inclined to believe SamSpade... is there a reason I shouldn't?
>
> possibly... some ISPs don't return "invalid address" responses to
cancelled
> accounts... if they deleted all record of the account, then the spammer
> could just sign up for the same address again, so they don't tend to do
> that... they often lock the spammer out of the account rather than
> preventing mail going to it... but that's only a "possibly", i've no idea
> how excite's servers work...
>
> the only way of confirming that an email address really is live is to send
> an email and get a response from the spammer... with anything else, you
> can't be sure..
>
> > There is no appeals checkbox or other mechanism on the parse form to
> appeal
> > or "undo" the block on the reporting of this e-mail account. I sent a
> > manual complaint to Excite abuse. But I wonder if the Spammer marked
> these
> > e-mail addys as resolved so (s)he could continue to operate?
>
> it's possible... unlikely though i think, as either the spammer would
> actually have to be a paying member of spamcop, or excite would have to be
> forwarding complaints to their free email users...
>
> > Is a manual complaint my only option in this situation (assuming
SamSpade
> is
> > correct, the account is open)? Why doesn't SpamCop allow for an appeal?
> > Any info is appreciated, and again, sorry if this is a repeat question.
>
> not sure if this decision that was made of if it's just a screw up... i
> personally think that appeals of email addresses are (or maybe were) a bit
> of a waste of time, due to the fact that it's pretty much impossible to be
> sure that an email address is still working...
>
> > --
> > Sue Morton
>
> hmm... not relevant to this post, but i see you're using the OE 6 beta...
i
> also note that (presumably) it's still not possible to use a valid sig
> separator :(
>
> > P.S. I was going to post the tracking URL as help, but I see that
> SpamCop's
> > tracking URL does not match the parse results I received when I did the
> > actual parse. The e-mail addys aren't even _mentioned_ in the tracking
> URL.
> > Not sure why that is, seems like the tracking URL is incomplete if it
> > doesn't show everything it found in the original parse and the status
> > thereof?
>
> this is a good point... dunno if it's fixable, but...
>
> michael
>
>
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