Sorry for the delays in responding to this, I was out of town last week. Let me clarify - I was not suggesting a list for reporting spam *to abuse desks*. I was not suggesting a list where one could say "so and so is spamming me from $ISP" and someone from $ISP would look into it (although of course if they were on the list, I suppose that they could).
And I was *definitely* not suggesting a public list where one could publicly post spam. What I was suggesting was a private, confidential list of trusted reporters. For example, I have routinely been receiving spam from, among others, Ezoic and planetdatabase.com. I *do* report them, but it's been useful in this endeavor that at least one person on this list also took an interest in it. Remember that this conversation got started because someone *did* post a spam sample here, and was quickly whacked for doing so, because mailop is *not* for that. I know there are people here (and others) who are interested in learning about the sources of spam when they trust the person who is reporting that information. They can do with that information what they want. So *that* is the list that I am talking about. In fact, given the responses here (many against, but some for) and the responses I have received offlist, we have gone ahead and created that list. If you want to join it, do; if you don't want to join it don't. :-) So, if you want to be part of this private, confidential list to discuss and report spam that you have received, and related matters, send a note to: trustedreporters-requ...@isipp.com with 'subscribe' in the subject line. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Legislative Consultant CEO/President, Institute for Social Internet Public Policy Member, California Bar Cyberspace Law Committee Member, Colorado Cyber Committee Member, Board of Directors, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop Member, Board of Directors, Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Ret. Professor of Law, Lincoln Law School of San Jose Ret. Chair, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
