[SpamCop-List] Re: Does it really help?

[Fred K]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message
news:cr0k05$p6s$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>
> Once upon a time, spammers might spam from their own account.  Parsing
> the spam and determing the source and notifying the provider for the
> source could result in the spammer losing the account s/he spammed from.
>
> Skipping past some intermediate history involving abusing anonymizing
> smtp servers, we have now reached the days where spamming typically
> comes by the spammer abusing open proxies or trojans.


Your history lesson seems to be a good argument to go after the spamverized
sites ala spamvampire to 'discourage' them by hitting them in their wallet.
Sure sometimes the spamvertized sites maybe a victim of unauthorized
spamming. And some of the time an innocent customer also connected there
would suffer with a slow connection. In that case they should talk to your
ISP to get rid of spamvertized sites, and if the ISP is not responsive, find
a place for the honest and innocent website with a honest ISP.
Bye the bye, it seems that spamvampire does produce results, as
202.102.230.36 is not found anymore at  least from my part of the world.

Fred k