[BC] If you wonder why email is getting worse

[Al Stewart]

Spamcop is fine -- to a point. I have a problem with them because they keep blacklisting legitimate senders.

Al

------ At 02:26 PM 12/07/2006 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: -------
  

>I really prefer email lists to web bulletin boards. It just shows up and
>it's easy to scan the subjects. I don't think mailing lists have a severe
>problem with spam. On the lists I run, new members come in as moderated.
>Once they post something on-topic, I remove the moderation. I use
>spamcop.net on my mail server to reject email from reported spammers. I
>then run the email through Spam Assassin. These reject something like
>10,000 spams a month. Another 50 or so that get through per day are
>reported to spamcop.net . Eventually I hope all the zombies out there are
>listed on spamcop!
>
>Harold
>
>
>> Wouldn't a lot of these problems be eliminated, and a better, more
>> organized
>> archive created by just moving away from an email listserv to a web based
>> bulletin board running vbulletin or the like?
>>
>> bern
>
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Al Stewart
stewarta at kootenay.com
stewarta at xplornet.com
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