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

[Miss Betsy]

"Ellen" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:ctqp8o$i95$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>
<snip>
> 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.

I think that the links do reference the 'official' spamcop FAQ (at
least for the server admins).  My original concept was for
non-technically fluent users (who are hopelessly confused by the
official FAQ).  The end user part is not so much FAQ as an overview
on the concept of what has happened and advice on what to do.

Since addresses did age off the bl for various reasons, at the time
this written, in much less time than 48 hours, saying 'within'
makes it accurate for any time within that period without going
into all the details and it is still accurate even though the
maximum time has changed, though it probably should be changed
either to reflect the official time or made even more indefinite.
And I did know that it had changed, but didn't think that it was
that important to change this FAQ.  Admins will want to know
exactly when or what the criteria are (which they will find if they
use the official FAQ) and end users have no interest.

Miss Betsy