SpamCop Opinions?

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 07:37:39PM -0600, Alan Jackson took 113 lines to write:
>> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 08:39:07 -0500
>> Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > Anyone here use (or used) SpamCop? Have any opinions about it?
>> > 
>> 
>> I obsess too much over spam. http://www.ajackson.org/Spamstats/index.html
>
>So I see. ;-)
>
>> If all you want to do is send a complaint to the ISP, I use this script
>> in Sylpheed (Note it depends on zcw to get the address and is customized
>> to the correct number of internal handoffs that occur at my 2 isp's. It also
>> runs Spamassassin in cleanup mode to remove all it's cruft. zcw from
>> http://www.cyberabuse.org/whois/):
>
>I've decided bitching to the ISP is ineffective. Truth be told, the most
>effective spam-reduction effort, gunshots to the heads of spammers,
>realisticaly isn't an option. So, I'll settle for increasing the blocking
>it at the server. For every spam I block at the server, 1 gets through.
>
>SpamCop isn't doing anything for me that I can't do myself.

IHMO Spamcop is fatally flawed because it depends largely on reports by
clueless users.

Bill
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