[SpamCop-List] Re: accepted 1 email for processing.....

[Mathew Hendry]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:01:48 +0100, geo_splash_12 <nospam at nospam.org> wrote:

>It does not make sense to report spam at spamcop if it is known in dsbl 
>(open proxies), spamhaus xbl+sbl, sorbs, or china, korea and brazil 
>blocklists.

Why not?

* Not everyone uses all of those blacklists
* Not sending reports means that ISPs aren't notified, or aren't notified
  sufficiently to make them take action
* IPs "fall off" the SCBL pretty quickly if they are not reported for
  repeat offences
* Even if the spam source is known, the spamvertised URLs may be new

>To reduce e-mail traffic to spamcop you can collect several spams and 
>forward them all together as attachments in one e-mail to spamcop. The 
>spamcop system will then return 1 e-mail saying that it has several 
>reports to be finished off. The latter can also be avoided with quick 
>reporting, in that case the finishing process is done automatically.

Quick reporting doesn't report spamvertised URLs though. There's at least
one blacklist that is fed by SpamCop spamvertising reports: see
http://www.surbl.org .

-- Mat.