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FC: Spamcop again blocks legit site, reportedly takes out Tucows
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 13:42:52 -0500
[Tucows is a domain name registrar that became famous in the 1990s by offering freeware/shareware downloads. The danger here is not that Spamcop is violating its own rules; it almost certainly is not. Its procedures, as I understand them, allow incorrect or malicious allegations of spam to place a site on the Spamcop blacklist. This is not a mistake: Spamcop was intentionally designed to have a hair-trigger better-safe-than-sorry reporting system. That makes it terribly prone to abuse, and Spamcop knows it. Spamcop's designers should have the right to sell such a flawed system, but the rest of us don't need to use it and should advise others against it. --Declan]
--- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:34:30 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Baptista <baptista () dot-god com> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> Subject: SpamCop (fwd) Declan - looks like spamcop blacklisted tucows. Joe Baptista - only at www.baptista.god www.baptista.god yours to discover ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:01:35 -0500 From: Edward Gray <egray () tucows com> To: discuss-list () opensrs org Subject: SpamCop Early this morning the opensrs mail system that is used for sending OpenSRS domain renewal notifications was blacklisted by SpamCop. This has happened several times in the past specifically with SpamCop. This occurs because a registrant receives the renewal notice and in error, flags it as a Spam message with SpamCop. We are required to send at least 2 renewal notices to the owner of every domain as per the ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement. The duration that the blacklist will remain active is difficult to determine but the longest we have remained blacklisted so far is approximately 19 hours with some of the events lasting a 1-2 hours. Edward Gray Director, Operations & Networks Tucows Inc. egray () tucows com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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