Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu:
>On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 21:17:21 -0500, Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>E. Jacquelin Dietz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu:
>>>SpamCop is apparently
>>>very powerful and will blacklist NC State as a sender of spam.
>>
>>I am 99.9999% sure this not true. No entity has the power to
>>"blacklist [someone] as a sender of spam".
>
>Spamcop maintains a blacklist of IP addresses that have been reported
>as spammers in the past week. You can read about the rules for
>listing here: <http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/297.html>.
>
>Some ISPs use that list to categorize incoming messages as spam.
>Depending on the ISP, this could mean that *all* messages from that
>server are blocked, or tagged as spam.
>
>Spamcop can't block any email, but because their list is fairly widely
>trusted, if a server is listed in their blacklist, a lot of other
>sites will block email from it.
Sure, but a site that responds to spam complaints doesn't get put on
Spamcop's list, does it? That's why I said that the OP's complaint
was against her ISP not properly handling spam complaints.
(I'm a Spamcop user too.)
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
"Honesty always gives you the advantage of surprise."
-- /Yes, Prime Minister/
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