Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 7:40 am, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> Sidarth Dasari wrote:
> > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.knujon.com/
> >> [2] http://www.complainterator.com/
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for those links :)
>
> there is also
> http://www.spamcop.net/
>
> and thanks for the links!!
I purposefully did not mention spamcop in my email because for me spamcop did
not reduce spam. If it is anything, my spam volumes increased after I started
reporting to spamcop. But since there is no way to prove this, it is at best
an allegation against spamcop.
While the concept behind spamcop is sound, it is not very efficient in
removing spam from your Inboxes unless you use the spamcop's DNSBL to reject
the spam messages. But if you do this, there will be lot of false positives
and you risk not getting legitimate messages.
Moreover, according to spamcop's policies, you should not report spam from
debian mailing lists (or any mailing lists you intentionally subscribed to)
or spam from bugs.debian.org unless you are administrator of these lists. So
it is pretty much useless in my case as almost all the spam I receive is from
mailing lists. On a related note, spam mails sent to mailing lists are
perfectly acceptable to knujon.
hth
raju
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