[SC-Help] Re: "No links found" tracker

[Mike Easter]

Glenn Daniels wrote:
> Mike Easter
>> I think SC should offer a service, only for pay, not for free, that
>> offers some modified reporting 'method' which is more liberal in its
>> interpretation of 'material changes'

> As it stands,
> you could "cheat",

I don't recommend that at all.  In fact, I'm a strong advocate of manual
reporting because of the inadequacies of standard SC reporting.

> I don't believe you should be asked to pay for
> the priveleges you ask,

The principle purposes of SC are to provide and 'balance' a free and
paid parsing and reporting system, to maintain a SCbl dnsbl blocklist,
and to 'sell' a mail filtering service.

The value and 'weight' of the SCbl and the 'meaningfulness' of SC
notifications is based on the integrity or quality of the spamcop
report.

Reporters, given excessive liberties, can destroy that value by diluting
its integrity.  They need much supervision, oversight, and 'threat' of
discipline to keep them in line and behaving as advised.

Humans do those oversights, and if you want more of them or more
'functionality' in that sphere you can't expect to find it by a devoted
cadre of unpaid volunteers to oversee and discipline misbehaving
reporters.  Ergo $$ in the equation.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin