[SpamCop-List] Re: How long does delisting take?

[Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting]

wgaf wrote:
> "Miss Betsy" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message 
> news:d1eee1$5f9$1 at news.spamcop.net...
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>>>So I am responsible for people sending me spam? Wow.
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>>No, you are responsible for not sending that spam on to others.
> 
> 
> Did you mean, that no, you are not responsible for sending that spam to 
> others?
> That would make sense, since it does not blame the middle-man whos mail 
> server is RFC compliant.

I've said this before in other threads -- open SMTP relays are/were 
arguably RFC compliant. Did reluctant sysadmins make the RFC-compliant 
argument 5 years ago when they got blacklisted for allowing relaying? 
Probably...

Once spammers (or other villains) start exploiting a "feature" for their 
business, it's always painful to realize that one has to adapt to the 
reality of the world.

I say a sysadmin can continue arguing about RFCs on this issue (seems to 
be a lot of them are doing so), or use that same time/energy to fix 
his/her system.

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