I've always had problems with Spamcop and excessive false positives. It
works best when weighted high, but not high enough to trigger as spam by
itself. Combined with other test, it works great.
Is it me, or did SpamCop suddenly become awful when it comes to false
positives with almost
This comes up every few months. For some reason, it appears SpamCop goes
through a mean period and starts listing servers quickly.
John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA
Engineer/Consultant
eServices For You
www.eservicesforyou.com
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The major problem we have seen is that Spamcop is listing many aol ip
addresses. This has been going on for about 3 weeks now. Most aol mail is
now getting held because they fail 3 tests. We are considering lowering the
weight on Spam Cop. I would assume with all of the aol Volume that their
Well, it's important to remember that SpamCop is user-driven.
The man behind it, Julian Haight, and his Spam Cop deputies focus on parsing
the messages well, holding off the DoS attacks, juggling the expiry and the
weight of the IP subnet based on reports, and getting the right abuse
addresses
Over the last couple of weeks I have gotten a couple of messages from
Spamcop about problems. Looking at logs and some other things nothing went
out from my IP range. I will probably drop the weight on Spamcop for a while
until things settle down.
Jeff Kratka
Any possibility of sharing those messages here?
Matt
Jeff Kratka wrote:
Over the last couple of weeks I have gotten a couple of messages from
Spamcop about problems. Looking at logs and some other things nothing went
out from my IP range. I will probably drop the weight on Spamcop for a while
: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:12 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] What's wrong with SpamCop?
Well, it's important to remember that SpamCop is user-driven.
The man behind it, Julian Haight, and his Spam Cop deputies
focus on parsing
the messages well, holding off
I think the design of the system is both brilliant and flawed at the
same time. There aren't enough checks and balances in place to keep the
system pure. One night when PayPal sent out a notice to users, SpamCop
started listing them. I checked their records and found that they had 6
