[Scspamcop] Re: cox now blocking reports to spamcop (labelling them as spam)

[Mike Easter]

Frog Prince wrote:

> I didn't say they know what they are doing only that they are
> 'solving' the problem in the wrong way.

It does seem very incongruous that cox thinks that it can 'get away
with' pretending to deal with the problem of its user zombies by
blocking any miniscule spam which some user or another might send out
via cox servers.

If you want to get a picture, you can go to senderbase for cox.net
http://www.senderbase.org/search?searchString=cox.net  and you will see
in the lower half 'Addresses in cox.net used to send email' -   1347

Then, just skip down past the obvious cox output servers until you start
getting to the user IPs.  Then start clicking the user IPs one at time
and watch them start showing their blocklistings in CBL & SCbl.

Notice the columns on the right, daily vs monthly magnitude.  The
senderbase has them ordered by monthly magnitude, but that might mean
that an IP with a daily magnitude of 0 is higher ranked than some other
with a much 'busier' daily magnitude.

The point is that cox pretending to do something about user spam by
putting its watch on the spam sent from user IPs thru' cox servers is
just silly.  That isn't a source of cox user spam.  And you know that
cox must know that -- and that they also know that doing something about
the spam sources I just described and which list is easily available to
them as well as our conversation here, is a much more complicated
proposition than putting an outgoing spamfilter on a server.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin