Re: Bad feelings about SpamCop in alt.sysadmin.recovery

Tim McGraw <[email protected]> Tue, 09 May 2006 08:58:56 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamcop.user
Organization SpamCop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Kenneth Brody wrote:
> In alt.sysadmin.recovery, thread "Be very quiet, I'm hunting lusers",
> there is some anti-SpamCop discussion.
> 
> It started with someone mentioning that their servers got blacklisted
> (they didn't say by whom) because of one of their lusers, to which
> someone else replied
> 
>     Go on, surprise me. Tell me it isn't spamcop.net.
> 
> and went from there.

Ken, I applaud you for fighting the good fight, but reading between the 
lines it looks like this is a bunch of sysadmins for small and middling 
systems who say, "damn the torpedoes, backscatter ahead!"

Talk about a negative bunch. Here's what the group's FAQ sez:

> Alt.sysadmin.recovery is for discussion by recovered and recovering sysadmins.
> It is a forum for mutual support and griping over idiot lusers, stupid
> tech support, brain-dead hardware, and generally how stupid this idiotic
> job is.

Do they ever say anything good about anyone/thing?

This is not a group /I/ would hang out with!