[SpamCop-List] Re: make it clear

[Mike Easter]

Mike Easter wrote:

<old faq>
> SpamKiller from Minute Group is an outlook plugin which uses the
> Spamcop list to filter mail. It seems to use SpamCop's list
> exclusively for it's filtering logic.
> </snip>

> SpamKiller is a bad idea.

There may be some confusion about what SpamKiller is.  SK McAfee is this
http://us.mcafee.com/root/package.asp?pkgid=123&cid=3213 -- I guess we
could call that SK-McAfee.  The link which the SC faq provided was to
here http://www.minutegroup.com/prodpg_spamkiller.htm -- which I guess
we could call SK-Minute or SK-Payya Tec.

If a person were looking for an enduser system which uses DNSbl/s and
can use the SCbl they might consider SpamPal or others, but I think
someone or Don decided to just back off from the business of mentioning
anything besides SpamAssassin.  How hard do you think it would be to
talk about how that faq page should mention SpamPal instead of the
MinuteGroup SpamKiller and have the faq be changed any time soon?

There is something paradoxical about that.  Under some conditions the
faq is impossible to change.  Under other conditions it is easy to
change.  The same page makes a disclaimer.  The same page mentions
SpamAssassin.  The same page used to mention SK-Minute and provide a
link.  Why shouldn't the same page mention SpamPal and provide a link?
Many people around here and other newsgroups commend SpamPal as a
valuable way to use DNSbl/s such as SpamCop's, SP is free and well
supported, like SA.

Why should /n/x users be provided access to a link about SA, but Win
users not provided access to a link about SP?  It actually doesn't make
any sense.

The fact that such products compete with the SpamCop business of
providing filtered mailservice should mean that there shouldn't even be
a link to SpamAssassin either.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin