>How would spamcop know how much legitimate email comes from a server.
There are two theories. One is that mail to people with a spamcop.net
address gets counted, the other is that mail to anyone running spamcop gets
counted. The idea, in either case, isn't specifically that the mail is
legitimate, just that it isn't reported as spam.
>I've had very poor experience with the spamcop test.
Most people have had very good experience with it. However, it does seem
like "good" mail servers are starting to creep into the list (such as AOL,
where they may occasionally get a spammer, or a company sending out E-mail
to all their customers but more than 2% complain that it is
spam). Unfortunately, they have a hard-coded 2% cutoff -- that is, if at
least 2% of the mail being sent from a mail server is reported as spam, it
will be listed.
Hopefully, they will change that so that the TXT record will report the
percentage of spam, so you could decide at what level the E-mail would be
considered spam. Until then, though, the test works very well towards the
new weighting system (IE if the SPAMCOP test and one or more others fail).
-Scott
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