[SpamCop-List] Re: Why doesn't SpamCop report to domain contacts?

[Merlyn]

"Monty" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:0gic90dfciu01knr7nd28li9ttcq0pvk68 at 4ax.com...
> I find it surprising that SC doesn't send spam reports to named domain
contacts
> for spamvertized websites. I've thought this for a long time, but during
the
> last year or so there has been increased fraudulent use of hijacked
servers by
> spammers. This means that the apparent "hoster" of a spamvertized website
is no
> more than a temporary proxy for the spammers. On the other hand, domain
contact
> information is meant to be correct and so should be used. If the domain
contact
> information is not correct then we have a way of reporting that too.

Actually I think the owner of the IP should be notified instead. It would be
up to the owner to contact the person using/leasing their IP.

Spamcop works via IP address not domain name.

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Merlyn

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