Re: Open relays and open proxies

[Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>]

> > Pity that spamcop spams people.
>
> Spam complints are not spam.

they can be.  and in spamcop's case, they usually are.  for reference,
check http://www.mail-abuse.org/standard.html and decide whether robotic
spam complaints can or cannot often fit all of (1) (2) and (3) as shown.

> And the spam promoting SpamCop was from some spammer who didn't like
> SpamCop.

that's not what i'm referring to.  spamcop has complained to me about
everything from rfc1918 addresses to mail/news gateway spam to mailing list
spam.  i eventually had to just hard-reject all mail from spamcop in order
to make it stop.  this kind of sloppy work just dilutes the mix and makes
valid hand-generated spam complaints less welcome by association with the
unending crap that comes out of spamcop's robotware.

(if it's any consolation to julian, the helpmesoft approach is even worse.)
-- 
Paul Vixie