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

Tim McGraw wrote:
> 
> 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!"

Given that they go there to complain about such tactics from lusers,
I expect more from them.  There were only a few messages in the thread
when I last read it, so I'm not sure where their negativity towards
SpamCop comes from.

> 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?

I good rant can draw applause and admiration.

Before the group became moderated, it was entertaining to read the
replies to people who posted questions thinking that it was a place to
ask sysadmins for help with your problems.

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


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