Yes, i agree. However, in this particular application, which is a
small user group, this does not matter...

I have not had any complaints about it yet, and as most of the
complaints we have had about spamcop on our Client servers, (We're
looking at 5 million email as day over a cluster...) have been from
either dialups, (That should nto be sending directly anyway...) or
people that HAVE been spamming, I find it still very effective, as an
entry won't last more than 24 hours.

One particular client that complained to us, actually had spammed me
on one of our role accounts, and he has the audacity to complain that
we are blocking him, so I have now blacklisted all of his servers on
our incoming mail servers, pending a formal apology. Nothing so far,
and the account manager has not come back to me yet...

Spamcop as far as I know will only add an entry if 3 or more
complaints have been received about a specific IP. Not sure about
this, maybe someone can shed some light on the exact workings?

But yes, your point is valid, so anyone using it, please heed this
warning.

Monday, May 29, 2006, 8:38:24 PM, you wrote:


> FYI - Spamcop's BL is very heavy with false positives. Not to say it
> can't be useful as part of a scoring system, but if you use it directly
> to reject mail, you're *going* to lose legitimate mail...

> Jorn Hass wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> 
>> For those that are interested, I did some quick reports for the last 7
>> days, plus today:
>> 
>> Rejects per blacklist:
>>   15 (relays.ordb.org.)"
>>   62 (sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.)"
>> 1870 (bl.spamcop.net.)"
>> 7501 (dnsbl.sorbs.net.)

[snip]

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