[SpamCop-List] Re: Confused spamvert

[Ant]

"J G" wrote:

> On 8/14/2005 11:13 AM Ant scribbled:
>> As I've said before, if a reporting address looks weird, try
>> refreshing the cache. I've just done that, and now get this on your
>> tracker:
>
> I wasn't aware you've said that before, but I'll believe it -

My apologies; I was a bit hasty. I said it once over in .routing, not
here.

> never used it nor unnerstood what it was for - and still don't,
> but will try to remember the advice.

Spamcop caches whois info to save doing too many lookups, which would
slow things down. Also the registries may limit the number of whois
queries in a given time period. Spamcop would easily exceed this limit
and find itself locked out.

> I'm not to the experience level of recognizing an address as looking
> weird -

Simply that the address doesn't seem appropriate when you recognize
the domain, or after you've done your own whois check - as you saw
for yourself. If you refresh the cache, the software will show how it
obtains the address.

> I just randomly check spamverts, knowing SC lacks a certain interest
> along that direction.

It can happen for spam source addresses as well as spamvertized URLs.