OK, I stole the title from Slashdot, but the story bears repeating. You can see the rest of their story here.
Really, is there NOTHING Verizon won’t do to try to steal more money from their customers?!? They’re as bad as Bank of America who, last month, CHARGED ME to make a cash deposit!!
I am SO tired of Spamcop giving preferential treatment to some spammers, giving them a complete pass on spam complaints! Here is a excerpt of the processing of an email I cannot get BestBuy to stop sending:
Not only does Spamcop refuse to send spam complaints to “abuse@exacttarget.com” (an email marketing company that BestBuy uses to manage their mailing) with no explanation whatsoever, but Spamcop refuses to report spam complaints for any sites that are hosted by Akamai. They have this bogus message “Cannot resolve http://www.<something>.com/”, when clearly they can or they wouldn’t know that the site was hosted by Akamai in the first place!?!?!
Considering that Spamcop is owned by Cisco, I think the quality coming out of Spamcop certainly reflects on the priorities that Cisco puts on network abuses like spam?