Comment Re:Spamcop is almost worse then the spammers... (Score 3, Insightful) 187
I agree. It's a little annoying to spend 10 minutes writing a response from a user's technical help request, only to have that user bounce the message because their provider uses SpamCop, and SpamCop has blocked your entire ISP.
Since you only have the user's email address you have no way of contacting them, even to tell them that you can't contact them because of SpamCop!
So you contact SpamCop and they take this high-handed approach and won't help you. You contact the ISP, but they don't do anything either, so you are stuck. Also, they don't seem to check anything but just take any complaints at face value.
So in the case of self-appointed spam vigilantes like SpamCop, unfortunately the cure is worse then the disease. Likewise the spam filters that fill my inbox with "virus detected in message which contained your forged from address" alerts.
I prefer the system EarthLink uses where you have to confirm the message is genuine.
Since you only have the user's email address you have no way of contacting them, even to tell them that you can't contact them because of SpamCop!
So you contact SpamCop and they take this high-handed approach and won't help you. You contact the ISP, but they don't do anything either, so you are stuck. Also, they don't seem to check anything but just take any complaints at face value.
So in the case of self-appointed spam vigilantes like SpamCop, unfortunately the cure is worse then the disease. Likewise the spam filters that fill my inbox with "virus detected in message which contained your forged from address" alerts.
I prefer the system EarthLink uses where you have to confirm the message is genuine.
