Originally published February 23 2006
Google and Spamcop back in the ring over unwanted email
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Spamcop, a service that blocks unwanted email, has blocked several Gmail servers, leading to normal mail being rejected as spam. Spamcop's owner has failed to respond to requests for a comment on this issue.
Google has once again had to lock horns with Spamcop, the service which blocks unwanted e-mail on behalf of many mail service providers, following the blocking of several Gmail servers, leading to normal mail being rejected as spam.
Occasionally, Gmail is listed on SpamCop because we do not reveal the IP address of our users."
In fact, although Spamroll experts have expressed serious doubts about Google's position on privacy, the finger points at clumsy implementation of Spamcop rules.
The search company has come under pressure once again, because of its insistence on maintaining user confidentiality.
It recently found itself at loggerheads with the US Government, which asked for all searches relating to child porn to be sent to a Federal authority - something Hotmail and Yahoo!
have both complied with, but Google is challenging.
Spamroll's expert says that "I am not sure what Google's beef over privacy is here, but it makes little sense to me."
The author of the comment continues: "First, it is extremely difficult to learn much about a sender from their IP address, other than the general locale that particular e-mail was generated from.
But why would a legitimate user care about that?
It's the bad guys altering their headers, bouncing e-mails off open proxies, and using privacy tools to mask their real locations that you have to worry about, and an IP address in plain site is not going to bother them too much.
It gives accounts only to people recommended by existing users; and alternatively, insists on validating by sending a text message to a mobile phone.
This might indicate that it has nothing to say, or it might indicate that even inside IronPort, Spamcop implementation is not sensitively set up.
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