[SpamCop-List] Re: Wondering about how SpamCop works

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"Patty" <patty1515NOSPAM at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:cm25m1j5rlsr$.1klwcugqpm75l.dlg at 40tude.net...
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:34:21 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:
>
>> Mike Easter wrote:
>>
>>> There are also such things as mailing lists which use poor 
>>> mailing
>>> list management processes, and thus can be 'manipulated' to 
>>> sign up an
>>> address without a proper confirmatory process.  That would 
>>> result in a
>>> person who never signed up for a mailing list to be receiving 
>>> mailing
>>> list items without ever subscribing.  If a SC reporter 
>>> receives a
>>> mailing list to which s/he did not subscribe, s/he is not 
>>> obligated to
>>> unsubscribe, any more than a spam recipient who receives spam 
>>> is
>>> obligated to unsub or request to be 'removed' from a 
>>> spammer's list.
>>
>> Majordomo at insulin-pumpers.org
>>
>> // Welcome to the insulin-pumpers mailing list!  //
>>
>> There is no confirmatory email from the email address which 
>> was website
>> subscribed to get to this point.
>
> I don't understand.  We're supposed to wait for a response from 
> someone
> confirming that they've joined after they get the Welcome 
> message?
>
> Patty

Yes.  Please go back and read the mailing list links that were 
provided, especially the parts about e-mail confirmation.  You 
might even try a Google on the phrase; it's very well known and 
will get a lot of hits.

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