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  1. ...Great work, Steve! I suspect you may have happened upon an all-too-rare abuse admin team with a sufficiently low volume of complaints that they actually have a knowledgeable human reading their abuse complaint e-mails. If you tried that with Yahoo, for example, you would have been much more frustrated. :) <g>

  2. Hi, Steve,

    <snip>

    (my name is Steve as well).

    ...That's three of us! :)
    How would I go about 'dummying' the submission to add the spamvertised website?

    <snip>

    ...That's not advised -- see SpamCop FAQ (to which links may be found near the top left of each SpamCop Forum page) articles labeled "-------> Material changes to spam - Updated!" and "-----> What if I break the rule(s)?" Steve (Farelf) did it only to illustrate his point, then canceled it so he would not violate the rules.
  3. ...Steven, while I share your frustration and agree with your point, I think it may be misplaced to direct it at techie. IIUC, techie is making a suggestion about how to code for IPv6 in general, not how specifically to do it in SpamCop and has made no public judgment about whether the time it has taken is appropriate. On the other hand, techie's "The wrong way is to simply add a check for IPv6, and puke if found, which is what currently happens, as of the update in March 2011" comment seems to assume something that isn't true -- that the current code was intended to address IPv6, which (IIUC) it was not!

  4. <snip>

    BTW, what else can I do to help get IPv6 support going? It seems that SpamCop has been planning IPv6 support for over two years now.

    ...That's a very good question and one to which I'm sure everyone here wishes she or he knew the answer, so that we all could have taken that step and it would have been done long ago! My naive guess is that SpamCop is working hard to get it right, rather than just throwing out some solution that doesn't work and that it's harder to get it right than anyone thought.
  5. <snip>

    Can someone tell me what the ipv6 header is? They look OK to me.

    <snip>

    ...It appears to me that the offending entry is
    Received: from localhost ([::1]:53899 helo=mjail0.freenet.de) 
     by mjail0.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID suburbium[at]orenda-dryadis.de) 
     (Exim 4.76 #1)	id 1Rv7Uw-0007Qb-W1; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:23:46 +0100

    When I remove that line and submit it to the parser, I do not get the error message about IPv6.

  6. Same as everyone. Getting towards end of year. When will this be fixed?
    ...See See Don D'Minion's reply in SpamCop article "spam with no originating IP."
    Is there a way to edit out the ipv6 stuff and re-post the spam?
    ...Not that I'm aware. We are prohibited from making "material" changes to spam and IIUC the changes that would be required (removing or changing IP Header lines) violate that policy. I'm afraid you'll just have to ignore those for now.
  7. Topic question is how to back up (not give up) the email on the server.

    I understand there's no way yet.

    <snip>

    ...Perhaps I don't understand your question but I believe the answer is that the mail is backed up and can be restored on the server side. I think that's what the very first sentence of SpamCop Forum Topic "****Please read **** Email system update #8" is saying. The big problems here seem to be that (1) the e-mail admin(s) didn't seem to be certain that the restore would be complete and (2) it took so longer to recover it.
    Two questions, I think, sum this up:

    -- how to get everything copied to the local computer and keeping copies happening routinely

    -- how to change/move the copies so CESMail's IMAP can't take it away accidentally

    -- how to look at the copies later.

    <snip>

    ...That's three questions. :) <g> I believe that some options to the first and last are given in the first post in this Topic 79280[/snapback] in the two links labeled "HERE."
  8. We'll have to agree to disagree.
    ...Why? It appears to me that we're in perfect agreement. My message was that if your risk-aversion to lost e-mail justifies the cost, do it yourself; your conclusion was:
    I'll be moving my data off the servers, sadly, because I actually would like to have ALL my mail, including deep archives, hosted and secured externally (or as the kids say, in the cloud).
    Looks like perfect agreement to me! :) <g>
  9. <snip>

    and not rely on the SpamCop server for persistent storage, unless SpamCop announces some reassuring new data security policies.

    ...Well, consider: CES no doubt thought that its current data security policy was sufficient to avoid disaster. Nevertheless, they don't yet know, several days after the failure. And I doubt such misplaced confidence amongst e-mail service providers is limited to CES. Do you really think you should trust any service provider's (not just e-mail, for that matter) ability to keep your valuable data/ e-mails safe?
    <snip>What's the answer? DIY backups every day? Twice a day mornign and evening? Every ten minutes?
    ...Well, there's a trade-off here. You can spend as much time and money on your own data/ e-mail security as you feel appropriate for the value of that data/ e-mail. What is the cost to you of lost e-mails? What is your assessment of the probability of valuable lost e-mails? The answer to those questions (and perhaps others that don't occur to me off-the-cuff) help determine the answer to yours. It's kind of like life insurance.
  10. Miss Betsy was one of the first regulars I recognized and respected when I started lurking around here.

    She is missed.

    ...Amen to that! Modesty (for example, her sig: "an almost new internet user") and cheery helpfulness were the hallmarks of her posts here.
  11. That sounds a tad on the illegal/privacy violation side to me. They got in trouble just for doing traffic shaping, which doesn't even involve scanning their customers computers, I suspect actually going in and somehow scanning running applications (which would be impossible if the customer is behind any kind of firewall/router configuration) would be a whole bunch of lawsuits waiting to happen.
    ...Tough luck -- their server, their rules (provided they publicize that in advance, so potential customers who don't want that to be done won't subscribe). Besides, I didn't suggest scanning *all* running applications, just for the presence of an (any) active firewall and an (any) antivirus product. And if it's impossible because the customer is behind a firewall, then there's no need to scan -- the customer is doing what is needed to limit access by malware, assuming the firewall is properly configured, something the provider presumably can't tell.
  12. <snip>
    ...Thanks for posting! It's good to see participation from the e-mail providers.

    ...Has RR considered doing what my employer does, which is to refuse access to anyone who does not have corporate-sanctioned active prophylactics (for example, virus detection and personal firewall)? I would think this would greatly reduce the amount of spam running through your system, since much (most?) spam these days is coming from "trojanned" PCs, as evidenced by the large number of spam "from" dynamic IP addresses.

  13. <snip>

    But I'd recommend staying away from my personal politics web page....might be bad for your blood pressure. Here's my office door, which opens to the....(you guessed it) LEFT! :lol:

    <snip>

    ...ROTFL! Actually reduced my BP by making me laugh (even if I didn't quite agree with the specific sentiments -- they're STILL funny!). :D <big g>
  14. I'd like to see an import/export function added to the whitelist.

    <snip>

    Importing my address book into my whitelist would help in this regard.

    Thanks,

    Steve

    Hi, Steve!

    ...Your idea seems to be very popular! There are

    I'd like to see an import/export function added to the whitelist.

    <snip>

    Importing my address book into my whitelist would help in this regard.

    Thanks,

    Steve

    Hi, Steve!

    ...Your idea seems to be [b'>very[/b] popular! There are many hits in the results of a search on key words '"address book" whitelist'.

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