Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:51:10 -0700
From: Vicky Rode <vickyr@socal.rr.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu, nanog@nanog.org, nanog-support@nanog.org
Cc: rrsecurity@socal.rr.com, vickyr@socal.rr.com
Subject: Spamcop
Hi there,
Just wondering why was my e-mail thread (Hierarchical Credit-based
Queuing (HCQ): QoS) dated 5/9/2004 9:36 PM reported as a spam? Just
trying to understand so that I don't repeat it. Below is a cut and paste
of the reported incident.
Vicky:
I'm guessing here, but it was probably because the *.rr.com addresses
originate a LOT of spam and someone has a procmail filter that
automatically refers any mail from that domain to spamcop...
Or it could be that someone didn't like what you wrote and reported it
...
Dunno.
Remember, I said that I'm **guessing**.
Regards,
Gregory Hicks
I've found that a number of people that are spamcop subscribers
report messages as spam that are not when they don't know how to
get removed from lists.
I find this annoying and always make a note in the spamcop
ticket saying they're fools when this happens.
I do wish that rr.com would get a different dns naming
system set up (ala comcast, using client.comcast.net or similar subdomain
that does not have MX records to help with the direct-to-server SMTP
problem I have with rr.com with spam..)
- Jared
here's another guess: someone wants off of nanog, lost or didn't understand
the unsubscribe instructions and is submitting nanog email to spamcop
to try and get off.
it's a guess, but it has happened before with other lists.
richard
It could also simply be a mistake. The inet-access list was once reported as a spam source by a happy subscriber who was busy reporting hundreds (or thousands?) of spams and clicked /included a list post by accident.
jc
JC Dill wrote:
It could also simply be a mistake. The inet-access list was once reported as a spam source by a happy subscriber who was busy reporting hundreds (or thousands?) of spams and clicked /included a list post by accident.
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p.s. Please do not cc me on replies to the list. Please reply to the list only, or to me only (as you prefer) but not to both.
I'm going to join the guessing game and guess that some scoring system
scored on uncommon words (hierarchical), trigger words (credit), and the
number of Cc: entries (I did not count the ones in the original, the
complaint had a bitch-list 4 or five long, some of the responses to it
have 8 or 10 Cc:'s I think--I did not count them either), the origin
(Road Runner) and so on and reached the conclusion of 'spam'.
Welcome to the world where email has been taken away from us.