Re: spamcop

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:39:39PM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> On Thursday 21 September 2006 21:11, Seth Goodman wrote:
> > On Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:39 AM -0500, Stephen wrote:
> > > This is why debian-user is being constantly blacklisted -- So the
> > > onus is on Debian to fix things on their end.
> >
> > Strongly agree.  Spam from USENET is part of it, but SpamCop listed the
> > server because of messages to a spamtrap.  If this is correct, it had to
> > be a confirmation message :)  Spam trap addresses are secret, so there's
> > no way to stop this except by talking to the DNSBL maintainers.
> 
> Are you saying that SpamCop maintains spamtrap addresses and that networks or 
> hosts that send spam to them are added to SpamCop's databases?

Wouldn't surprise me.  That's what spamtraps are for.
Perhaps spamcop should try some reverse spamfiltering on their spamtrap
to identify subscription response messages that intended to poison
their spamtraps.

-- hendrik