[SpamCop-List] Re: SpamCop.net is promoting a C/R program on the new site layout

[Paul Johnson]

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"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> writes:

> John E. Malmberg wrote:
>> If the C/R is enabled, it will mean that lots of customers at the
>> same ISP will get challenged for the spam.
>
> I am a vocal anti-C/R person who doesn't even think it should be used on
> wanted mail, much less abusively at bogus spam From addies.  I try to
> intervene when EL is telling people who are unhappy with spam getting
> past Brightmail's filters to turn on spamblocker high which has that
> default C/R.

The whole C/R concept is pretty flawed, for sure.

> I was glad to see them make it optional, I wish they had made off the
> default, or just jettisoned C/R altogether.  A person could manage their
> Suspect mail folder very well with no C/R and just summaries of the
> suspect daily or weekly.

Or automagically if they just used SpamAssassin at SMTP-time the way
Derrick Hudson came up with and I still use.

http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/

>> I do not know what protections that Adelphia has to prevent spammers
>> from using the "good mail" mailbox from whitelisting their spew.
>
> I have no idea what a 'good mail' Adelphia mailbox is.  That doesn't
> make sense to me yet.

A hambox for mail that is not spam.

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Paul Johnson
<baloo at ursine.ca>
Linux.  You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.
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