>But the SPAMCOP test doesn't work like that. First, it requires multiple >spam to be *reported* to them. You have to be sending more than a few >E-mails for that to happen. Second, it requires that your >spam-to-legitimate-mail ratio be less than 2%. So if you have lots of >legitimate mail leaving your server that makes it to SPAMCOP users, you >won't get listed even if you have occasional small amounts of spam leave >your site.
Scott -- any idea how they determine this ratio? We were blacklisted a while back, if I remember correctly it was because they had received two reports. Not complaining here -- our server *had* been hijacked. Thanks to this list, I knew what to do as soon as I found that we had been blacklisted, and we were delisted from most lists within 2 hours, tentatively delisted on others (until -- I think -- 24 hours had passed), and spamcop's web site said we would be delisted in a week if they didn't receive any more reports (they were true to their word on this, by the way). Anyway, what I don't understand is how they determine the ratio. I don't think there is anybody out there reporting to spamcop every time (or *any* time!) they receive a legit email from us. So how do they know what the ratio of spam to legit is??? Thanks, Tony -- "There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is." -- Calvin Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
