[SC-Help] Re: Internal Spamcop Reporting?

[Miss Betsy]

"Socks" <agent01413 at my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:Xns95D98CA9C4C60agent01413MYDEJACOM at 216.154.195.61...
> "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.

OTOH, for other ISPs it may mean quicker action because they put
spamcop reports on a higher priority.  One has to know the reputation
of the ISP to know.  though in general, the ones who have special
addresses are the ones that get a lot of reports which means that they
aren't as good about spam control as others.

Miss Betsy