From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 15 19:39:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F259B16A4CE for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 19:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6DA543D4C for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 19:39:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i4G2duiQ020463; Sat, 15 May 2004 19:39:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i4G2dsra070327; Sat, 15 May 2004 19:39:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.11/Submit) id i4G2drUn070326; Sat, 15 May 2004 19:39:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 19:39:53 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Jim Trigg Message-ID: <20040516023953.GC70076@tao.thought.org> References: <20040515005503.GA9224@tao.thought.org> <2147483647.1084576828@[192.168.1.3]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1084576828@[192.168.1.3]> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: blacklist(s) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 02:39:59 -0000 On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:20:28PM -0400, Jim Trigg wrote: > --On Friday, May 14, 2004 5:55 PM -0700 Gary Kline > wrote: > > > Any thoughts on spamcop.com? > > AFAIK, you mean spamcop.net (from what I can tell, spamcop.com does not > have a blacklist, just a reporting feature and an ad for a Windows-based > spam blocking program. > > The spamcop.net blacklist is somewhat controversial; some people find it > too prone to false positives. I personally won't use it to bounce mail, > just to mark mail as suspected spam. > Thanks for the data-point. I backed off when I saw that spamcop.com was (1) for Doze clients and (2) wanted bux. If spamcop.net has a lot of false positives, then it's a no-go. People I've known for years were seriously pissed when their mail was 550'd. --Of course they had no clue. Here at least we're mostly techies... . gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix