[SpamCop-List] Re: Hi all, I've been ignoring you.

[Chris Abbey]

Adrian Edmonds wrote:

> Well you're doing a great job. Thanks. One point though. I understand
> the rationale behind trashing auto acks but this has made Spamcop a
> bit of a black hole, at least for free users. I know, I should join
> up. Is there anyway of getting some kind of feedback that what we're
> doing has any impact?

The autoacks that are being filtered (at least the ones I'm happily
not receiving any more) shouldn't be interpreted as anything more
than a confirmation that your MTA (spamcop.net) and their MTA were
successfull in passing an email from one to the other. Personally
I wish a few ISPs would get off their lazy asses and change the
autoack text to reflect reality:

    "Our mta accepted a stream of bytes with your address
     in the envelope, it has filed it onto the infinitely
     large drive we've mounted at /dev/null. Should we some
     day become bored and can figure out how to read from
     this new drive, we may call up your stream of bytes
     and have a good laugh. In the mean time please hold
     your breathe.
     /s wery-spew-oh-spew-dot-com-net abusive staff

otoh messages like this:

    "I nuked the little shit's account, then billed his
     sorry ass for the 60 meg worth of GRQ spew he had
     spooled. I've also shared his name with the other
     three ISPs in town... he won't be getting local
     internet access in this area ever again. --Jonn

are an excellent example of feedback showing that we're
having an impact - and that most likely will NOT get
filtered.


btw Julian, welcome back... hope you're catching up on
the sleep... ;)