[SpamCop-List] Re: What's the point?

[Bill Beyer]

"Steven Maesslein" <nobody at nowhere.invalid> wrote in message
news:slrndh4979.dkh.nobody at 127.0.0.1...
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:04:15 -0700, Bill Beyer coughed into spamcop and
> left this in <det504$93e$1 at news.spamcop.net>:
>
> > The question is what's the point? Why would the spammers care? Do they
> > intend to listwash me or is it simply so they can verify that this is
> > a live address?
>
> Those are the 2 most common reasons for coding the e-mail address
> somewhere in the spam, yes.
>
> Add to that potential mailbomb attacks if they can trace being kicked
> off an ISP to your reporting them.
>
> > Why would you want to add an anti-spammer to a mailing list?
>
> How do they know the address they blasted belongs to an anti?
>
> Why should they care anyway?
>
> > I counted 21 of these in the last 2 days.
>
> You're lucky it's that few :)
>

Well I guess I can understand the mailbombing angle because the only way
they're going to get any feedback on that URL is through a blackhat ISP who
forwards the spam complaints on to them.