On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 21:17:21 -0500, Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>E. Jacquelin Dietz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu: >>SpamCop is apparently >>very powerful and will blacklist NC State as a sender of spam. > >I am 99.9999% sure this not true. No entity has the power to >"blacklist [someone] as a sender of spam". Spamcop maintains a blacklist of IP addresses that have been reported as spammers in the past week. You can read about the rules for listing here: <http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/297.html>. Some ISPs use that list to categorize incoming messages as spam. Depending on the ISP, this could mean that *all* messages from that server are blocked, or tagged as spam. Spamcop can't block any email, but because their list is fairly widely trusted, if a server is listed in their blacklist, a lot of other sites will block email from it. Duncan Murdoch . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
