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

[Kenneth Brody]

Michael Lefevre wrote:
> 
> Miss Betsy wrote:
> > "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.
> >>
> > Technically, you are correct.  The point of this FAQ is to go from
> > 'easy to understand' general statements (for most of the people who
> > come to find out why they are blocked) to the more specific
> > technical details.
> 
> It should be possible to do that by leaving out detail - making things
> technically incorrect in the process of simplifying isn't good, because if
> people do go further than reading the FAQ and are then told something
> contradictory, it causes more problems than it solves.

Perhaps change:

    The SpmCopDNSbl listing will expire automatically within 48 hours
    of the last report of spam from it.
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

to:

    The SpmCopDNSbl listing will expire automatically within 48 hours
    of the last reported spam from it.
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> And, if you're making edits anyway, "SpmCopDNSbl" is wrong.  Aside from
> missing the "a" from SpamCop, it's generally called the SpamCop BL - given
> that the audience for the document are unlikely to know what a DNSBL is,
> there's no point in adding extra letters...


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