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

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

Just a bit of a problem in what I'm seeing ... the Forum FAQ does
point to your referenced link.  However, reading that official FAQ
entry here's what I'm reading right now;
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Important Disclaimers:

This description is subject to change and may be out of date.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
(just for starters) .. but later on in the text;
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
The SCBL weights reports depending on how recently the mail was received (or
"freshness"):
The SCBL counts the most recently received reports 4:1.
The SCBL counts reports for email 48 hours and older 1:1, with a linear
sliding scale between the most recent and 48 hours past.

With only two reports against an IP address, the SCBL will list the IP
address for a maximum of 12 hours after the most recent reported mail was
sent.

The SCBL will not list an IP address if there are no reports against it
within 24 hours.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

As Miss Betsy states .... this is over the head of a lot of
folks, and picking the "right and correct" number out of
all that is a bit difficult, depending on whether you are
talking to the ISP involved, and end-user complaining
about e-mail being blocked, or the spam reporter asking
why the report sent 10 minutes ago didn't "do" anything ...