Sidney Markowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is there so much churn among spamvertised sites on the SpamCop list
> that this would be a problem? Keeping the expiration time low would
> minimize the effect of false positives, especially from joe jobs. What
> do you think an appropriate expiration time would be, and why do you
> think so?

Using expiration time as the method for handling joe jobs (and false
positives in general) seems very insufficient to me.  I think the FP
rate is going to be the same order-of-magnitude with our without quick
expiration.

> Do you know anything about how SpamCop generates their spamvertised 
> sites page?
>   http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=inprogress&type=www
>
> It appears to be a close to real time report based on submissions from 
> ISPs or other spam gatherers. I wonder how much checking they are able 
> to do before putting a URL on the list.

We can always just test it...

Daniel

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Daniel Quinlan                     anti-spam (SpamAssassin), Linux,
http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/    and open source consulting

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