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According to this 19-Nov-2003 InfoWorld article, IronPort (the

bonded-sender people) will acquire SpamCop.NET:

The purchase is designed to shore up SpamCop, which survives on volunteer help and fees from spam reporting services.



Recently, prominent anti-spam 'blacklists' like SpamCop have been forced to close after suffering sustained distributed denial-of-service attacks that are believed to have been launched by spammers.



Anti-spam blacklists Monkeys.com and Osirusoft both ceased operations in recent months after being crippled by the attacks.



By absorbing SpamCop, IronPort hopes to keep its valuable spammer blacklist and sender reputation data public, and enhance its products' ability to stop spam e-mail at the network gateway, before they reach users inboxes, sources said.

SpamCop.NET is one of the providers listed in The Table on my IMAP Service Providers page.
Also the SpamCop blocking list can be used by SpamAssassin and other spam-detection tools to help determine the spam score (probability) of a message.



Also see

• SpamCop Survives Under New Owner: Security firm IronPort will acquire blacklist provider, continue its service
  by
  Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
  Wednesday, November 19, 2003. This includes some quotes by my friend John Levine.


• SpamCop To Be Sold To IronPort? at SlashDot.

Warning:  There are some sleazy companies with domain names similar to SpamCop.NET that I recommend avoiding.
I have added the ones that I know about to my
Google AdSense URL Filter List but periodically a new one shows up in my Google Ads before I kill it.
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