Spamcop tax on NGOs

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

I sent the following to our administrators.

Subject: Re: [SpamCop
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It seems that someone on the fsfeurope list where Seth Johnson sent his
mail was angry and then went to Spamcop and gave us trouble.   The trouble 
is even greater when we send out mail to our supporters, i.e. people who
have agreed explicitely to receiving such mails and can unsubscribe any 
time but prefer reporting to Spamcop to the hassle of reading a short 
text with brain switched on.

As said before, Spamcop requires at least a few manhours per week if
not a full-time paid job from every NGO. I called that the "Spamcop tax"
at

        http://kwiki.ffii.org/SpamcopEn

and at the moment we don't have the money nor can we afford to give up
forms of communication that lead to spamcop reporting.  So we just have
to put up with it and perhaps alert more users to the limitations of
Spamcop.


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> The above page provides links that may help European Union citizens
> determine which candidates are most supportive of information freedom.  It
> provides analyses of the Parties in various Member States, and lets you see
> how the Parties and individual MEPs voted on the Software Patent Directive
> this past September.
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> In a world of ubiquitous computing, candidates who take an enlightened
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