[ILUG] OT Re: Eircom -v- IOL, or just Eircom practicing the best of spam management, and blacklisting themselves.

[Frank Murphy]

At 13:20 27/04/2004, Enda wrote:


>Personally it makes me re-think my own blacklist strategy. False positive
>blocking is acceptable at a corporate domain level where the organisation is
>responsible for its own destiny, but when it comes down to an ISP being the
>domain for many multiples of corporate entities, all suffering the same
>fate, not a good option (commercially).
>

>Spamcop doesn't block ISP's,

what it will do is place a particular mailserver on its bl.spamcop.net,
if it gets enough reports of spam, not bounces even fake ones or virii,
or recently Mailing-List spam (unless your the admin for the list.)

It is them up to server admins to make use of the lists or not.
+ if spam is reported to an ISP mail-admin who does nothing,
they may well find themselves considered a spam friendly ISP,
and be blocked by other ISP's

All entries are auto. de-listed 48hrs after the last spam report for a 
particular mail-server.
Spamcop "reportees" will lose their reporting service for will nilly reporting.

Frank
(spamcop user)