i have one question on this. What if there are multiple domains on one ip address and only one of those domains is sending out spam. Then all the domains are essentially listed because of one bad apple right? How is this good then. I wouldn't want to be one of the people on another virtual domain that got screwed or is this not a possible scenario
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:05:58 -0500 > >>they may not actually base good mail on the ip address but the domain. > >Sorry, but that just isn't possible. > >The SPAMCOP test works by looking up the IP address -- that's the only >thing that the SPAMCOP test knows about you. When Declude saw your E-mail >here, it asked SPAMCOP what it knows about "63.172.199.25". That's how >most DNS-based spam lookups work (there are a few that use domains, such as >http://www.rfc-ignorant.org , but that's the exception). > >Technically, they could look at the domain and find the MX records, and >increase their count of legitimate mail, but that would be silly. Since >they know the IP address sending the legitimate mail, why not just increase >the count of legitimate mail for the server that sent it? > >>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. > >Yes, it does have some flaws. Personally, I think that they should have a >variable legit-to-spam ratio (so that people could choose to only block >mail if a mailserver was sending out 100% spam), and it would be nice if >they had an easy way to get out once the problem was solved. But other >than that, I think it's an excellent test, especially when used in >conjunction with other tests. > > -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/ > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at lohrtech.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/
