[SpamCop-List] Re: Spamcop Blacklist

[Mike Easter]

BMW wrote:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:

>> If you had posted in spamcop.mail, the notion that you are referring
>> to the SpamCop Filtering Service would be more clear.
>
> Yet another layer of frustration, SC has seven, count them, 7 forums.

Actually news.spamcop.net has 10 ng/s - counting test, control, and
control cancel

> How can anyone (any casual user) figure out which one is most
> appropriate for any given issue?

That is a fair question and the answer is not handled well at SC at
all -- I've been crabbing about that subject for a long time.  There are
several sources of answers.  First of all, you can use your newsreader
to acquire an nntp description of all of the groups.  Without posting
all of the descriptions here, I'll just point out that appropriate
descriptions exist for geeks and social and all of the rest but one and
also that the descriptions of the groups spamcop, mail, and help are as
follows:

spamcop: General SpamCop Discussion
spamcop.help: Help with spam and using spamcop
spamcop.mail:

Notice that the description for spamcop.mail is empty.

Another source of information is on this page
http://www.spamcop.net/help.shtml#nntp which names and describes 4 of
the groups, but doesn't even mention help or mail.-- as if they didn't
exist on the newsserver.

> Some of us are NOT interested in
> becoming geeks, we just want easy to use, effective services.  In
> retrospect I can see how stupid I've been posting spamcop issues on
> the spamcop forum!  I have got to go find some other answer, you guys
> really don't get it!

The powers that be who perform most of the support for mail are partial
to the webforum, and some links to the forum discussions have been
posted here in the very earliest reply message.  However, at the time of
that posting, the confusion over the intent of your original post was
prevalent.  There's a whole section for spamcop mail related questions
in the forum at http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showforum=4
SpamCop Email System & Accounts Subforums

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin