[GTALUG] Spam is basically dead

[David Collier-Brown]

On 17/08/17 06:40 PM, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
> On 17 August 2017 at 12:54, David Collier-Brown <davec-b at rogers.com 
> <mailto:davec-b at rogers.com>> wrote:
>
>     If they don't voluntarily agree to stop emailing me, I drop them
>     into spamcop form below:
>
>     ^u^a^c... ^p and they get their corporate email provider flagged
>     as a spammer.
>
>     This usually gets them told there will be a fine from the provider
>     every time they get blacklisted and have to appeal to be
>     unlisted.  That motivates them wonderfully (;-))
>
>
> Please think twice before doing this. Spamcop, Spamhaus and the rest 
> are little better than extortionists.

Spamcop.net should not be compared to the extortionist sites, nor the 
email vendors. It's honest, and living on a shoestring. The others are 
cash cows for the inherently dishonest.

And note that it's the _corporate email providers_ who charge money to 
anyone who gets reported for spamming: that's why I used that particular 
example.

--dave

-- 
David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
davecb at spamcop.net           |                      -- Mark Twain

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