> Ive thought of another downside to using the xtra mail servers, in that
> they
> will get any spamcop etc complaints to deal with, not me, so that means
> they
> will most likely just do what they do whenever a clients machine is
> compromised (turn off the connection or whatever) on invalid complaints.

Funny how rumours start innit ;-)
All the FUD...

If Xtra's security team were to receive a complaint that one of their
customers was sending spam, they would look at the complaint at face value
and then take appropriate action.
That action would usually be a warning except in very rare circumstances
where sheer volume requires more urgent action.

Again this is typicall ISP standard practise. Not many ISPs can afford to
arbitrarily cut off users without some sort of warning first - as theres
always two sides to every story, the PR nightmare that would result from
an 'unfair' disconnection is not worth the headache.

One wonders why you expect to see traffic about your connection appearing
in Spamcop... Spamcop is used to report message which is assessed as spam
by a user, so unless theyre doing it maliciously, responsible internet
users should never have to be worried.. !

Mark.
(Posting for himself only, in case there was ever any doubt.)

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