[GTALUG] Spam is basically dead

[David Collier-Brown]

Cisco owns IronPort, who owns spamcop, but neither provide any money to 
spamcop. Spamcop used to be partially supported by CES, but they bailed.

Spamhaus is a different company, and is arguably evil.

--dave



On 17/08/17 08:48 PM, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
> On 17 August 2017 at 19:30, David Collier-Brown via talk 
> <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     Spamcop.net should not be compared to the extortionist sites, nor
>     the email vendors. It's honest, and living on a shoestring.
>
>
> On a shoestring? They're part of Cisco. They run an RBL, so they can 
> still block shared servers. I still put them on the evil side.
>
>     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.
>
>
> The RBL that blocked my former employer asked for money to get a 
> faster resolution. That's extortion. And there's a precedent for 
> considering RBLs tortous interference: Spamhaus vs E360, which from 
> reading Wikipedia and Spamhaus's own coverage, you'd think Spamhaus 
> won. They lost: the $3 symbolic damages remained.
>
>  Stewart
>
>
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David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
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davecb at spamcop.net           |                      -- Mark Twain

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