bur Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 I just discovered that gzidc.com was added as an interested 3rd-party to receive information about asian hosted spamvertized sites. Their site looks like they're a webhoster and all I found about them in the list-archive is that seemingly they once also hosted spamvertized sites and were said to be "unresponsive". Why do they want a copy of the reports? Though probably spamcop admins will have checked them to be legit, I don't like the idea of sending some chinese webhoster (sorry, but the many spamhosts there give the whole chinese IT a bad name to me) gets information like spamvertized URLs as we all know that quite often the spammers encode the recipients address in the URL. So any informations about this company and what they intend to do with the info collected would be welcomed. Greets, Florian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenUnderwood Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 I don't like the idea of sending some chinese webhoster ... gets information like spamvertized URLs as we all know that quite often the spammers encode the recipients address in the URL.39574[/snapback] You are always free to uncheck any recipient you don't feel "right" about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bur Posted January 23, 2006 Author Share Posted January 23, 2006 Yes, I know and that's what I do currently. But it's not that I don't feel right about them, nor do I feel right for them, I don't know who they are. So if this company to me has legitimate use for those spam mails they can get all the reports they want as I surely don't begrudge spamcop earning some money to pay the bills. On the contrary I want to help. I'd just like to know who they are and what they intend to do with the reports. Call me leery, but that's how it is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazoo Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 So if this company to me has legitimate use for those spam mails they can get all the reports they want as I surely don't begrudge spamcop earning some money to pay the bills. On the contrary I want to help. 39602[/snapback] ????? Please explain what you are suggesting .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenUnderwood Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 ????? Please explain what you are suggesting .... 39603[/snapback] It sounds tome like bur thinks that spamcop gets paid for these reports. The only situation like that is the Cyveilance (spamcop[at]imaphost.com) arrangement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wazoo Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 It sounds tome like bur thinks that spamcop gets paid for these reports. The only situation like that is the Cyveilance (spamcop[at]imaphost.com) arrangement. 39615[/snapback] To which the "money changing hands" was defined as the "cost of the bandwidth" involved ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Betsy Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Perhaps bur would be interested in spamcop.routing where questions like this are discussed? Only to contribute, bur would have to be able to substantiate his suspicions. Miss Betsy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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