The Cisco-owned Spamcop.net spam reporting and blocking list service ran into a bit of trouble this weekend as their "spamcop.net" domain name was allowed to expire. The domain's…
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If you work the abuse desk for an email service provider, you've undoubtably gotten spam reports from angry Spamcop users who think that your ESP, your employer, is "re…
I was asked today if Spamcop should be "trusted." After all, even the Spamcop Wikipedia page says that their blocking list is "controversial." Though, is it…
One of my friends is receiving unwanted email from a big motion picture studio, and can't make it stop. Continuing to send email to a recipient after they have unsubscribed…
It's time for me to go back to the drawing board for a new opinion on Spamcop's SCBL blacklist. In the past, I had consistently observed significant false positive issues…
5/22/2007 Update: Some of this information is out of date. Please click here for my latest thoughts on Spamcop and the Spamcop SCBL. Recently, while doing a bit of research to…
(Note: This is out of date. Click here for a much more up-to-date commentary from me about Spamcop.) Think long and hard about what spam filtering/blocking systems you utilize…
