[SpamCop-List] Re: Submitting by email takes hours?

[Louis Krupp]

Mike Easter wrote:

> eddie wrote:
> 
>>As good as SC is, I wonder if it really does anything on a global
>>basis.
> 
> 
> It makes the SCbl and feeds the sc-surbl.  Those are useful.  Some very
> tiny subset of SC spam notifies also influence the notified, but not
> many.
> 

Isn't fresh spam required to keep the block lists up to date?

Could SC be a victim of its own success, with a cascade effect of e-mail 
submissions taking more than a couple of hours to make their way through 
the queue, the block lists failing to keep up with the flood, more spam 
getting through, and more e-mail submissions to process?  On the other 
hand, it could be a cyclic thing;  if people lose interest and submit 
fewer e-mails, then SC will be able to keep up once again, at least 
until too many people start using it again...

Louis Krupp