Richard,

Could you elaborate on this? Who shouts at you if you send things to
Spamcop?

Fighting spam is something that can only be done effectively if we work as
a community. If you report spam to Spamcop there is a chance that the spam
will be blocked at source, which is (literally) millions of times more
useful than just blocking your copy of it. And if the community does not
fight back against spam then because it is so cheap to produce there will
be such vast quantities of the stuff that e-mail will be destroyed as a
communications medium.

If you go it alone then you are very likely to spend more effort fighting
it off than you would if you just deleted the stuff.

Bob

 On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
>
> The argument about whether to use Spam Cop or not seems to revolve
> around the fact of whether or not you feel up to being able to
> understand the intellectual challenge of writing spam filters that
> provide the correct positives and not some false positives. You
> might think that Spam Cop is quicker and easier ?
>
> There are people out there who shout at you if you send anything to
> Spam Cop at all :)
>
> --
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>
>
>
> Richard
> www.sheflug.co.uk
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