After digging - since our users send alot of mail out - not sure how it wasn't getting picked up (if this service actually works) - since sprint messed up pointing to us as the authority for our block (seems to have happened a month+ ago, I just never noticed) - they may not actually base good mail on the ip address but the domain. Which doesn't make sense to me - but then most of spamcop does not make sense to me.
I stand by that it is a flawed system. Chet ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:42:43 -0500 > >>Scott -- any idea how they determine this ratio? > > From http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml, we find that "The reports of spam from a >system are weighted against the amount of mail from the same system to >determine a spam ratio". It also says "If a server has fewer than 3 spam >reports against it and neither of these are newer than 24 hours, then it >will be delisted, despite any otherwise-high ratio." > >>Anyway, what I don't understand is how they determine the ratio. I >>don't think there is anybody out there reporting to spamcop every time >>(or *any* time!) they receive a legit email from us. So how do they >>know what the ratio of spam to legit is??? > >That's a good question, that isn't easily answered (or, in other words, "I >don't know for sure"). It has been reported that people who pay for E-mail >filtering with Spamcop have their E-mail that is unreported count towards >the legitimate mail, but that isn't the only source of "legitimate" mail. > >Somehow, they typically know about 50-200 legitimate mails from our mail >server each week. It's hard to say how they could know about so much from >ours, but they only know about 1 E-mail from the person here that was >listed and has 50,000 users. > > -Scott >--- >Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for >IMail. http://www.declude.com > >--- >[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > ________________________________________________________________ Get your own evilemail.com address at http://www.evilemail.com Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
