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[SC-Help] Re: Internal Spamcop Reporting?

Socks agent01413 at my-deja.com
Sun Jan 9 20:50:39 EST 2005


"Miss Betsy" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in news:crs2vl$v36$1
@news.spamcop.net:

> 
> "Jeff" <jeff.simon.2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:crrth3$re6$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>> I keep seeing Internal Spamcop Reporting for this one ISP.  It
> says Internal
>> Spamcop Reporting for Level3.  Why does it say that?  Does
> Spamcop handle
>> the Spammer or does it get done by the ISP?  Spamcop is too
> confusing at
>> times!!
> 
> Some of the larger ISP's have arranged with spamcop to report to a
> special abuse address rather than the publically announced one.  I
> don't know if that means that spamcop reports get a higher priority
> for action or just reduces the size of the inbox for the normal
> abuse desk.  However, it doesn't mean anything more than the
> address spamcop reports go to is not the same address as the normal
> one.
> 

It means that Level3 /dev/nulls a smaller number of reports.  While Miss 
Betsy's analysis is correct, Level3 has a track record of ignoring reports. 
This special reporting isnt going to result in a spammer being acted on.


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