[SpamCop-List] Re: Reporting USENET spam?

[Mike Easter]

N. Miller wrote:
> I am not sure of the value of adding Usenet posting IP addresses to
> the SCBL; unless the same IP address is the source of email spam. The
> SCBL is not used against Usenet posts, as nearly as I can tell.

It is true that the report doesn't do anything useful for the SCbl and
that the SCbl doesn't have anything to do with usenet.

The only thing a usenet spam reporter can hope for is that the provider
cares whether or not the user IP is 'offending' someone with what
appears to be bulked and commercial and disproportionately benefitting
the poster.

You can't call it unsolicited because it isn't email.  Whether or not it
is bulked or 'appropriately' bulked is not determined, and the provider
isn't going to go looking around and see where it was posted and how
many times and what the charters of the groups were it was posted are to
know if it was against any groups charters.  You can't even call it
against the TOS of the particular provider unless you've read the
provider's TOS/AUP.

I think that providers typically don't act on reports of usenet spam.
Unfortunately and more significantly they don't even act on reports of
spam, real spam, email spam, emitting from proxified trojan users.

If providers aren't going to be acting against email spam from their
proxied users, they certainly aren't going to act against what someone
considers an inappropriately posted newsgroup message.  Even if it is a
scam or phish instead of a 'routine' commercial message.



-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin