spamcop.net?

Tue Mar 4 19:53:39 UTC 2003

>Thus spake "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan at fugawi.net>
>>  Not for nothing, but there's so much time wasted with all these
>>  diversified spam systems.
>
>Many of these systems have been shown to falsely flag non-spamming sites,
>and the more reliable ones unfortunately don't catch a majority of spammers.

So true. We have a colo client who is a domain name registrar that 
(curiously) "parks" expired domains on their servers here... 
basically saying "this domain available" (with something of a 
"whowas" database showing the last domain holder.) Last I checked 
over 500,000 expired domains are parked there.

Anyway, if I had a buck for every time some spammer used one of these 
expired domains for a bogus "unsubscribe URL" or "From:" address I 
would be able to retire by now. Quite comfortably.

I have thousands of auto-generated complaints from Spamcop, pointing 
to these domains as being "spamvertised"... and a /25 seemingly 
forever blacklisted by spews due to this 'false flag' situation. Yes, 
I have plead my case on news.admin.net-abuse.email ... but as we all 
know due process is not involved when on trial by spews.

I have a semi-auto reply now to explain the situation to Spamcop 
subscribers, but I doubt any of them read it, and I know no attempt 
is made to verify or prevent this event from repeating ad infinitum.

-- 

Chuck Goolsbee                          V.P. Technical Operations
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