I can't even believe how ignorant Spamcop is. What do they think they
are doing! I think we should start sending those guys our bills for
adjusting our systems to their ignorance.

Zeno

2006/10/30, Dave Steinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 03:35:11PM +0100, Zeno Davatz wrote:
> >
> >> because TMDA sends out replys to dead end Spam-Traps of Spamcop.
> >
> > If you know the domains of the spam traps, you can set your policy to
> > drop those messages silently.
>
> They are secret.  There is no test you can apply to determine if an
> email is a spam trap.  There is no guarantee that trap emails have SPF
> or DK records published for their domains.  This is by design.
>
> SpamCop disapproves of TMDA so they have no real desire to help us.  I
> dealt with this recently when my hosting company was blacklisted by them.
>
>  > I think the issue is that you're dealing
> > with joe-jobs, which is *not* the job of TMDA to handle.
> >
> > You might want to include SPF or RBL detection at the MTA, as well as
> > other common-sense steps like rejecting mail from MTAs without a valid
> > HELO or resolvable hostname.
> >
> > FWIW, SPF and domainkeys were designed specifically to prevent joe-jobs,
> > but neither is widely adopted. YMMV.
>
> These help, but since spam traps are run by a distributed group of
> sysadmins (i.e. SpamCop doesn't have direct control over these domains),
> there are no guarantees that this will help you.
>
> SpamCop has an anti-C/R policy, and my correspondences with them
> indicate that they are not interested in changing it.
>
> My experiences and some other details are here:
>
> http://dave.redterror.net/2006/10/02/spamcop-blacklists-and-policy/
>
> PS - FWIW - SpamCop's official line is that using their blacklist as a
> RBL is wrong... but a ton of people do it.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Dave Steinberg
> http://www.geekisp.com/
> http://www.steinbergcomputing.com/
>
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