[SpamCop-List] Re: Blacklisting, what does it take?

[Berny]

"Chris" <cpollock at earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:dn5cj9$kle$1 at news.spamcop.net...
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> So, guess my actual question here is just what does it take for an ip to
> get blacklisted by spamcop? One other side note, since the 24th of Nov
> I've reported this ip netblock, whether it was 66.162.83.190 or
> 66.162.83.183 192 times to abuse at twtelecom and as yet nothing has really
> been done about it.

Virus emitters, are usually only sending to email addresses that can be
dredged up from the infected machines hard drives.
Depending on the nature of business use of the machine in question that is
typically a small number of addresses, or at least a small number of
addresses outside the local net. Odds of hitting more than one, or even one
SC reporter thus can be very small indeed. For a listing, at leaset 2
independent spam reporters need to report the address, and then the total
number of reports is still normalized relative to the "typical email output"
as determined by Ironport.

So, unless a viral propagator has access to a millions CD, odds are it's not
going to get listed. If you're the only reporter receiving from that machine
it definitely will never get listed.