[Scspamcop] Re: Are reports processed at the moment

[Mike Easter]

Ejo wrote:

> Another run that doesn't seem to trigger the blocklist,

> They shortly arrive after another, they all point to 70.159.72.191, it
> is really German spam, but nothing gets blocked. Some big time spammer
> is getting away with it.

Just because you report 4 spams in a row sourced from the same IP
doesn't mean that you can run to the SCbl and expect to find it listed
there.

In many cases but not this one, the IP source has a 'significant'
traffic history or 'reputation' points which have to be considered
against the number of spam reports.

When you are reporting an IP with 0.0 traffic history in senderbase, the
chances that a 'few' reports will be sufficient to cause a listing are
greater -- but you don't actually know the 'hard' number of reports that
it will take to cause an IP to be listed, and you certainly don't know
if you are the only one reporting to spamcop about that IP or whether or
not there are spamtrap reports as well.  Or not.

All you can do is submit your reports and be very patient and wait and
see what happens eventually.  Like tomorrow.

Where 'tomorrow' may have several different kinds of values, but in this
case I don't mean in one or two hours because of your timezone offset,
but I mean a 'shift' or two -- where a shift would be considered in some
workplaces to be 8 hours.  Think of things happening as a result of spam
reports to be measured in 'shifts' - two or three shifts a day.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin