Comments on: GMail is sometimes being blocked by spamcop.net

By: Cory

Cory — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:53:42 +0000

Dave its administrators like you that over filter users email, if you filter all but five spam messages thats ok – if you block so much as one desired email, your users will be pissed and use a free service like Gmail Yahoo or MSN.

“I don’t know if you realize this but this “protecting privacy” is something that simply does not exist within the SMTP protocol. So in essense, Google is claiming to provide a level of “privacy” that the rest of the world is never ensured or granted.”

Sure SMTP is insecure but have you ever tried not to be path of least resistance?

By: -=dave

-=dave — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:43:54 +0000

As an ISP who’s clients rely on to keep their inboxes as free from spam as possible, I was surprised to hear about Google’s stance on why they do not provide the IP address of the originating sender.

I don’t know if you realize this but this “protecting privacy” is something that simply does not exist within the SMTP protocol. So in essense, Google is claiming to provide a level of “privacy” that the rest of the world is never ensured or granted.

If find Google’s stance on this issue simply flawed and will notify my users accordingly and let them decide.

And regarding the use of other lists, including the sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org list, they too have the capability of suffering from the same technical issue as the RBL from spamcop so just because the Spamcop project was mentioned specifically, doesn’t mean that jumping ship and shaking a finger at spamcop is the informed thing to do. Just thought you’d like to know

-=dave

By: Seb

Seb — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:57:13 +0000

Same here, I stopped using spamcop because of that issue

I only use these two RBL, which is quite enough for my domain :
reject_rbl_client sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org