[SC-Help] Re: Validating SMTP addresses

[Blammo]

On 02 Feb 2005 Iain entered spamcop.help and left
news:ctq466$658$1 at news.spamcop.net: 

> A part of the problem here is the service would predominantly be to 
> companies. Now a small company will know their ISP but who working for
> a larger business knows the routing of the Internet connection.
> 
> Some of the mail to be sent will be directly related to a known
> company but the problem is there's no knowledge of the users and
> therefore their mail addresses. Just because we know the user is
> associated with 'Acme' and that Acme does business out of a certain
> address, it doesn't really help us with whether a user's mail addres
> sis correct or if mail to them fails how to contact them. The might
> work in a completely different location. 
> 

Oh yes, don't I know that problem.

But what I mean is having some information on the subscriber gives you 
information that you may be able to track, and information that you can use 
to legitamize the opt-in.
I am really getting tired of bogus opt-ins, when they do have any subscribe 
info it's always bogus - the name is wrong, the address is wrong and the IP 
(if stated) is bogus. I had a reply from the TinyURL guy asking why I don't 
just unsubscribe, and I told him about all the bogus info and I would 
rather keep reporting it than unsub. I find it very odd that the same name 
(I have no idea where the name came from) is used for many different types 
of spam advertising many different types of sites, all from many different 
ISPs. Even sending unmunged reports to ISP/Admins that white-list (or 
forward reports) doesn't even make any difference, so I no longer send 
reports to some of them. I've been getting this crap for 4 years now, and I 
guess I'm just going to keep reporting the idiots.
Then there's one piece of junk I get that I *may* have subscribed to, but I 
don't remember doing so (it would've have been over 4 years ago if I did) 
and they've never provided any proof that I actualy did, so I continue to 
report them.

Sorry to rant, but this junk stops and then starts up again and I get 
pissed.
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