Re: {Spam?}

[Gregory John Casamento]

--- René_Berber <rberber@legosoft.com.mx> wrote:
> On 2004-02-24 21:58:30 -0600 Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com> wrote:
> 
> >> BTW: It's been pretty quiet on the GNUstep list for quite a while. :-)
> >> 
> > I've been receiving lots of mail from the list. You might check the 
> archives 
> > to see that. It looks like gnu.org might be rejecting your  address as
> spam. 
> > I don't know why though.
> 
> Somebody reported the list as spam at spamcop.net, perhaps as a joke.
> 
> By spamcop.net procedures the lists stays in the spammers database for 48
> hours and then is taken off the DB if nobody else reports it as spam.  It
> looks like the joker is reporting it again after is being taken off, I have
> my configuration marking the messages as spam but delivering anything from a
> known address, so I see when the list is in spamcop's DB..
> 
> I'm a paying member at spamcop.net and I searched for ways to take the list
> out of the DB but there seems to be only one and it takes time.  A list
> administrator has to write to them showing that it is a non-spam list, this
> is done by showing that there is a place to subscribe and un-subscribe;
> furthermore the administrator can ask to add the address of the person who is
> doing the false reports to a list of black listed people.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> -- 
> René Berber
> GnuPG ID : 0x5E2D25FE

Given that this is a public list and that spam does come through it on
occasion, the reports may not be on purpose.   I suggest you investigate that
possibility before assuming that it's a malicious act.

GJC

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Gregory John Casamento -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp.

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