[Scspamcop] Re: SpamCop regard responses to complainants as abuse

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Anthony Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2007 14:11:21 -0700, Mike Easter <MikeE at ster.invalid>
> wrote:
>
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>
> A typical response to a handled complaint that we send reads as
> follows:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Thank you for your report concerning this Unsolicited Bulk Email
>> incident.
>>
>> The account concerned has been identified and suspended under the
>> terms of the Sky Broadband Acceptable Use Policy.
>>
>> Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience that this incident
>> may have caused.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Anthony Edwards


That's pretty typical boilerplate IME, and often used to get a little 
respite hopefully.

Are those actions actually IMPLEMENTED BEFORE the message is sent?  Or it is 
'just' a response?

If I report spam having come from you, the only action I really need to have 
proven is the absence of further spam that leads back to you.  I used to see 
a lot of boilerplates just like that, and I also used to see the spam just 
keep on coming in, parsing back to the same place repeatedly even though it 
used various routes to get to me.

I wouldn't report you for sending me that response, but I would dismiss it 
out of hand and not even bother to see which of the several spams I reported 
it concerned.

My 2 cents

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