Hello Tom, On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 14:00:40 -0700 GMT (29/09/02, 04:00 +0700 GMT), Tom Geldner wrote:
TG> SpamCop does have one serious shortcoming. It does NOT reduce your TG> spam by reporting through it. 90% of the junk mail comes from about 10 TG> major sources in China and a few in Brazil. They could care less who TG> reports them and their upstream feeds to the backbone don't either. I agree with this. However, there are some other ISP's and open relays involved as well, as I get a feedback sometimes that they have closed account or spam-proofed their SMTP server. For those it is important to let them know where the problem is. If we don't report them, they will never know, and the amount of spam will increase without bounds. For those ISP's in China and Brazil, they are probably rightfully on many organisation's blacklist, and they will wise up once their customers complain that they cannot send mail anywhere anymore. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. "How come we choose from just two people for president and 50 for Miss America?" Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta1 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
