[Scspamcop] Re: careerbuilder.com - legitimate company? joe job?

[Miss Betsy]

"Michael Golden" <mgolden at bkbusa.com> wrote in message 
news:xn0fog6r91jkzgh001 at news.spamcop.net...
> I'm fairly certain CareerBuilder would honor an unsubscribe request.

If the OP is like me, he /never/ unsubscribes for anything he hasn't 
subscribed for!  It's a matter of principle.

If careerbuilder is a legitimate company, then they need to learn about 
confirmed subscription for their mailing list.  If they have a confirmed 
subscription list, then they should be aware that someone is including their 
name in spam.  In the latter case, they can ask spamcop to mark them as 
'Innocent Bystander' which is a better plan than bouncing spamcop reports. 
Some server admins do filter using spamvertized sites.  If the reason that 
they are bouncing spamcop reports is because many of their subscribers are 
not unsubscribing, then they need to learn how to keep their list current. 
(someone may subscribe and then neglect to inform them that they have 
changed their email address.  If they keep sending to that email address, 
ignoring bounces, sooner or later, someone else may get that email address 
and start getting their mailings.  To the new person with that email 
address, this is spam.)  Mailing list managers often get spamcop reports 
from careless reporters - one mailing list manager who had a /paid/ list 
couldn't understand why subscribers would send spamcop reports!  However, 
there are ways to deal with that, even if it is a nuisance, and it is one of 
those nuisances that spammers have created.  Just as offline merchants have 
to check ids because of the few who write bad checks and we all have to lock 
doors, online mailing list managers have to deal with the problems arising 
from the abuse by spammers.

If they are a legitimate company, then the email should be coming from the 
same IP address each time.  It shouldn't be difficult to contact them via 
some other avenue than a spamcop report and alert them that their name is 
being used in spam and what they can do about it.

Miss Betsy