From: "Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@connecttech.com>
To: "'Chase Venters'" <chase.venters@clientec.com>
Cc: "'Krzysztof Halasa'" <khc@pm.waw.pl>, <ellis@spinics.net>,
       "'Willy Tarreau'" <w@1wt.eu>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: bogofilter ate 3/5
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:35:31 -0400
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From: Chase Venters [mailto:chase.venters@clientec.com] 
> highly ironic that spam blocker services tell you not to use certain 
> techniques (autoresponders, bounce messages) that are not only 
> commonplace, but precedented and even mandated by RFC on the 
> grounds that 
> they may cause you to be blocked. Then they move on to 
> criticize anti-spam 
> techniques that fall in these domains with one of their 
> subpoints saying 
> 'they can cause you to miss legitimate mail!'
> 
> Guess what: so does indiscriminately blocking people whose 
> sites don't bow 
> down to your unreasonable demands, especially when their 
> behavior (say, 
> sending bounce messages) is described in the official protocol 
> documentation.

I will assume you are referring to SpamCop. Their service does not
behave the way you think it does:
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?autocom=custom&page=whatis
Read the paragraph: "SpamCop works exactly like the credit reporting
agencies..."

..Stu

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