Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

Fri Feb 26 06:19:44 UTC 2010

Hmm this just me of this post, where supposedly Facebook will be making the move into Webmail for its users. Interesting. Coincidence or not!?!?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/05/facebooks-project-titan-a-full-featured-webmail-product/

-Matt Dodd

On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:12 AM, deleskie at gmail.com wrote:

> Maybe I'm wrong on this, and I'm not a mailadmin anywhere nor have I been or pretended to have been in the past. But I'm pretty sure FB only sends you mail based on the prefrences you choose, and I know this is the answer you where given so mostly a statement. How does that equal spam :)
> ------Original Message------
> From: Reed Loden
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?
> Sent: Feb 26, 2010 12:46 AM
> 
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:14:37 -0800
> Shon Elliott <shon at unwiredbb.com> wrote:
> 
>> Anyone from Facebook or Spamcop lurking around to look into this? It's quite
>> annoying.. I can't imagine how many other users are scratching their heads on
>> this one...
> 
> I'm a long-time SpamCop member, so I forwarded your mail to the
> deputies. They are aware that facebook's servers have been
> sporadically listed, and one of them specifically said the following:
> 
> "Not much we can do about the listings.  They're sending spam to our 
> traps in large enough numbers that raises the score to a listing level. 
>  If Facebook were to follow best practices the spam complaints and
> trap hits would drop to levels that keeps them from getting listed."
> 
> ~reed
> 
> -- 
> Reed Loden - <reed at reedloden.com>
> 
> 
> 
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