[SpamCop-List] Re: Who's Using SPAMCOP? Any major players? Reviews by CNET or others?

[RW]

"Scott Townsend" <scott-i at .-N0-SPAMplease.enm.com> wrote in message 
news:cu0805$6uq$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>I was more interested in say if Company A is saying "Hey we use SPAMCop and 
>we love it!"  and they have their mail servers check the blacklist.   Not 
>necessarily having mail through SPAMCop...
>
> The Filters I'm currently using do not allow me access to the % that it 
> determines that the message is. We are currently using ORF and IMF.

To be completely honest, we have no idea who uses the blocking list as is it 
freely available to anyone who wants to set it up in their dnsbl file.  The 
only way we find out who uses it is when we get "why am I blocked" mail from 
someone that includes the blocking information.

 I don't know of any major North American ISP that uses the SCBL on its own, 
but some do use it as part of their spam solution.  The SCBL is best suit 
for corporations versus ISPs, because their expected mail comes from a much 
narrower groups of servers.

Heed the advice given.  If using the SCBL, use it as part of a scoring 
system (i.e. with SpamAssassin).  Also, anyone using any spam filtering 
should also run a whitelist facility along side it.

Richard