Re: Reporting problem (found problem: COMCAST)

On 26 Jul 2005 Brian Hetrick entered spamcop.help and left 
news:[email protected]:

> "Blammo" wrote ...
>> In short, you are comparing some inconvenience to a complete lack
>> of functionality.
> 
> Well, since I submit spam by e-mail, it is conceivable that SpamCop
> could allow me to confirm its parses of all spams in a batch with a
> single click, rather than demanding two clicks per spam. So it is
> really rather a lot of inconvenience SpamCop is imposing.
> 

Well, there is always quick reporting, and a possibility something like 
that will be available some day. It isn't something you used to have 
available that you have lost. It is really a poor viewpoint to consider 
that having a service available (for free even) is inconvenient because it 
is maybe not as streamlined as you would like, what exactly is your 
alternative?

> And writing a script to rename the .eml's to .txt's took all of an
> hour or two, certainly less than one week's SpamCop inconvenience.
> 

It was actually even easier than that for me to get around my ISPs 
limitations. Speaking of which, you could just as easily write a script to 
click the "next spam link" for you.

> Not all of us are willing to change ISPs after 17 years due to their
> filtering .eml attachments. We have different opinions as to whether
> it is "worth it;" but that difference makes neither of us wrong.
> 

So exactly how much are you willing to lose before the Internet loses it's 
usefulness? Lking brought up the real issue, their efforts aren't really 
helping anything at all. My ISP worked perfectly fine up 'til the last 
couple years, and I refuse to put up with "quick and dirty" solutions that 
don't address the real problem, such as say, a real virus scan would, or 
better yet stomping on users that get infected.

I wish I had changed years ago, since I found one that appears to be much 
better, not so sure about their support (which I rarely need), but 
otherwise good. Not trying to convince you to change, I'm just generally 
trying to get people to consider the alternatives, rather than just put up 
with things the way they are, or to assume that the company "knows best".

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