Re: Wondering about how SpamCop works

"Patty" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:08:00 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:
|
| > So, one point is that I would recommend to the admins of your mailing
| > lists that you have an email confirmation process in addition to
| > whatever other things you want to do with profiles and correlating email
| > addresses with IP addresses during the web signup.  Whether you include
| > the IP address of the signup process is another useful 'touch' that you
| > might keep in mind.
| >
| > If you haven't been very troubled by bogus signups in 10 years you've
| > been getting off easy.  As you can see, it can cause a great deal of
| > trouble for your subscribers to not have their mailing list managed
| > properly.
| >
| > The possibility also exists that we are not dealing with a bogus signup,
| > but a 'stupid' and bad spamcop reporter.
|
| Thanks, Mike.  I will pass this information along.  However, we are a
| non-profit organization with only volunteers to handle the work of the
mail
| list.  Sometimes it's hard to put more work on them. I will check with our
| SysAdmin to see if a confirmation process can be put in place to
| automatically send a confirmation to someone before subscribing them.
| However, that still does not solve our current problem which is trying to
| figure out who is causing the problem.  Short of sending emails to nearly
| 5,000 members to confirm that they want to be subscribed, I'm not sure
what
| else we can do.
|
| We have, in the past few years, added IP address and host name to the
| information for each new subscriber, but with so many people using other
| freebie email addresses such as hotmail and yahoo, sometimes that info
| doesn't match, but at least it gives some trace as to where the request
| came from.
|
| Thanks for your suggestions.  I will pass them along.

Off topic but as you're a non profit might look into:
http://www.techsoup.org