Re: Reporting problem (found problem: COMCAST)

On 24 Jul 2005 Brian Hetrick entered spamcop.help and left 
news:[email protected]:

> "Blammo" wrote ...
>> So why do you put up with stupid mail hosts and ISPs?
> 
> For the same reason I put up with SpamCop needing _two_ clicks to 
> process a spam, when a single confirm this one/process next one button 
> would do. 
> 
> 

A distinct difference...

Submitting a form has to return a message, or a location redirect, can't do 
both. This also requires quite a bit of logic to get it to work "bug free"; 
the return script would have to determine - after confirming no errors - 
what the next waiting report ID would be, rather than the more reliable way 
it's determined at page load now. Even if this location redirect were 
enabled, we would miss out on any confirm messages, and it would take the 
exact same amount of time - minus the short time one click takes. There are 
other reasonable alternatives, involving Javascript or tabbing order, which 
won't speed anything up either, but I do think a tabbing order would be 
nice.

Mail filtering by ISPs is done in order to gain approval of their 
customers, as it does practically nothing to improve their service. You 
could say "oh, I never get viruses, because they block EVERYTHING, I can 
only send plain text". While they scan the entire message body of every 
single eMail, which in turn consumes resources, which costs you money, all 
to protect you from that 1 in a million chance that you might send an 
infected .eml through their mail server (or some such silly nonsense), so 
you can shout out "my ISP protects my infected computer from infecting the 
rest of the Internet". Obviously none of this really works, which you have 
proved by working around it to do something you have every right to 
(ironically, to report abuse).

In short, you are comparing some inconvenience to a complete lack of 
functionality.

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