[SpamCop-List] Re: Why Am I Blocked? FAQ

[Ellen]

"Steven Maesslein" <nobody at nowhere.invalid> wrote in message
news:slrnd01d5d.mt.nobody at 127.0.0.1...
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 17:43:47 -0500, Miss Betsy coughed into spamcop and
> left this in <ctp0gk$5kj$1 at news.spamcop.net>:
>
> > The SpmCopDNSbl listing will expire automatically within 48 hours
> > of the last report of spam from it.
>
> This isn't quite accurate as I understand it.
>
> I was led to believe that the listing will expire within 48 hours of the
> last reportED spam being sent, not within 48 hours of the last report.
>
> For example, if a machine that was spewing merrily away is locked down
> on Monday morning at 10.00 am GMT, thus stopping the spewage, it'll age
> off the list by Wednesday morning 10.00 am GMT, even if someone waits
> until Tuesday night to report spam. The important part is that the spam
> being reported on Tuedsay night was still sent before the machine was
> locked down on Monday morning.
>
Actually the age off is 24 hours and it has been that for at least a couple
of months now. It is always good to take a glance at the faq every so often:

http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/297.html

And indeed in any information put together as a resource for users coming to
the forum, newsgroups or elsewhere the faq on the SC website should be
referenced as it is the official source of the operation of the blocklist.
This keeps down the necessity for remembering to update the other
faqs/boilerplates.

In any case the 24 hour clock runs off the valid timestamp from the last
reported spam headers not the time that a user reported it.

Ellen