A mad user test about spamcop.net mail at /. (3 weeks)

You would call me mad for it.

As  it would end up in spammers hands anyway (guys having custom worms) 
so as I moved to Spamcop mail from Yahoo "plus" (yea, plus without apop 
even) I had a mad idea.

I gave my mail on Slashdot, no "nospam" etc mess added, open mail. I 
don't get how spammer supposed not to filter those  basic additions but 
anyway...

3 weeks. Total 3 manually sent (no zombie etc) mails from obvious 
morons and all ended up in my held mail for reporting. One was a big 
looking French owned market company. I mailed them some stuff about 
frogs ;) No, not swearing of course. No need to go down their level.

Having only 3 mails as spam helped me to check the actual stuff and 
remember, now a usenet user with my real mail, I didn't have access to 
usenet for that 3 weeks.

Only place given was slashdot. I found it very interesting and mailed 
to CmdrTaco (founder) about it. I don't know if he read that or not, we 
speak about slashdot here and that guy is founder... I really wonder 
his mailbox when he wakes up each day.

So, old fashioned harvesters are alive and well, can pass that maniac 
code of Slashdot even checking your proxy while posting and bravo 
Spamcop and its users. Or, worse? Worms harvesting mail addresses?

Companies? The most blamed one, real networks, using for 20 months 
their "radiopass" and before like 4 years or more every single real 
version (like streaming) is clean. Of course, don't tell it on slashdot 
unless you want -1 mod thing. Gotta love the freedom of speech.

Only problem is, I am 2x in more regret I paid yahoo now.. :) Well, I 
was on beers and Myrealbox (Novell) didn't filter anything (on purpose, 
they are beta testing)

I hope this post is relevant, I think it may give new users (like me) a 
clue about the power we speak about.

Have a nice day

Ilgaz Ocal