Comments on: Blocklist wins round in spam spat

SpamCop can keep tabs on the e-mail operations of a self-professed "Spam King"--it's protected by law, judge says.

[hadaso]

You it this wrong!

"In addition, the company informs ISPs when one of their customers has been identified as a potential spammer."

WRONG! Spamcop's main activity is sending users' complaints to ISPs. The IP list is only a by-product: Spamcop only publishes statistics on complaints sent to ISPs. Spamcop lists IPs that were the source of email that several users decided to report as spam. The rules used to compute which IPs are listed are public and available through spamcop's website.

SpamCop clearly states in the main webpage for the IP list (http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml) that this list is not suitable as a sole criterion for blocking email!

And again:
SpamCop does not block email!
SpamCop publishes statistics on complaints sent to ISPs regarding spam.
Email recipients may choose not to receive email from sources that had recently received several spam complaints!
SpamCop recommends not to use the SCBL for blocking where receiving email is important. ISPs that use SCBL for blocking email have either not read the manual or have decided that their customers do not need to receive all their email!

OPTIN Needs to be blocked

I am so glad that Scott Richter is having a fit. I was getting probably 100 emails a month from his OPTIN network on one account alone. It took me several months of constantly emailing OPTIN and threatening to get a lawyer just to get it down to a managable level. I have another account that I still get several a month. I don't think he has a leg to stand on! He needs to be shut down! Way to go SPAMCOP!

JD

Optin DOES need to be blocked

Dispite numerous attempts via E-mail, phone, and links included in their spam; Optin continues to send their junk to my servers using my bandwidth.

We finally blocked them in PostFix, and just forgot about them.