[ga] Re: FC: Spamcop again blocks legit site, reportedly takes out Tucows

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Declan and all,

  Very sorry to here that Spamcop has yet again made such a mistake.

  Perhaps this error is an unintended result of the recent Whois Task
force's and the NCC's decision regarding Whois data.  ???



Declan McCullagh wrote:

> [Tucows is a domain name registrar that became famous in the 1990s by
> offering freeware/shareware downloads. The danger here is not that Spamcop
> is violating its own rules; it almost certainly is not. Its procedures, as
> I understand them, allow incorrect or malicious allegations of spam to
> place a site on the Spamcop blacklist. This is not a mistake: Spamcop was
> intentionally designed to have a hair-trigger better-safe-than-sorry
> reporting system. That makes it terribly prone to abuse, and Spamcop knows
> it. Spamcop's designers should have the right to sell such a flawed system,
> but the rest of us don't need to use it and should advise others against
> it. --Declan]
>
> ---
>
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:34:30 -0500 (EST)
> From: Joe Baptista <baptista@dot-god.com>
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
> Subject: SpamCop (fwd)
>
> Declan - looks like spamcop blacklisted tucows.
>
> Joe Baptista - only at www.baptista.god
>
>                        www.baptista.god
>                       yours to discover
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:01:35 -0500
> From: Edward Gray <egray@tucows.com>
> To: discuss-list@opensrs.org
> Subject: SpamCop
>
> Early this morning the opensrs mail system that is used for sending OpenSRS
> domain renewal notifications was
> blacklisted by SpamCop.
>
> This has happened several times in the past specifically with SpamCop. This
> occurs because a registrant receives the renewal notice and in error, flags
> it as a Spam message with SpamCop. We are required to send at least 2
> renewal notices to the owner of every domain as per the ICANN Registrar
> Accreditation Agreement.
>
> The duration that the blacklist will remain active is difficult to determine
> but the longest we have remained blacklisted so far is approximately 19
> hours with some of the events lasting a 1-2 hours.
>
> Edward Gray
> Director, Operations & Networks
> Tucows Inc.
> egray@tucows.com
>
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