[Scspamcop] Re: Spam will cease

[Mike Easter]

Ellen wrote:
> Robert Blair wrote:
>> "Giampaolo Tomassoni"

>>> You can't send a report if the ISP says that spam will cease. Oh,
>>> well.

I'm still not clear.  We are seeing examples of how the reporter cannot
report if the source provider has said the equivalent of 'spam will
cease' - or don't send me any notifies.

>>> Question: are mails from a WC source still used to evaluate the
>>> amount of spam issued from that source even if only uploaded to SC?
>>
>> I have questions also about 'spam will cease' since I have been
>> getting a lot of spam from an ISP that sets this frequently.
>
> For injecting IPs:
>
>>
>> 1. Since a Spamcop report is not sent does the report count against
>> the IP?  At one time I thought that I had read that it did but would
>> like to confirm how it works.
>
> Yes

Perhaps a spamtrap report can count, but a reporter report can't count if
the reporter is provided no opportunity to 'complete'/finish the report
process.

The example provided in this thread illustrated that.

From: Ismo Salonen
Newsgroups: spamcop.routing,spamcop.help
Subject: Deputies : Fanbridge misusing "isp resolved" status multiple
times
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:31:49 +0300
Message-ID: <g5mp0m$h68$1 at news.spamcop.net>

> Clicking spam will cease for injecting IPs *only* turns off reports, it
> does not change anything  in the BL calculation

I understand that concept, but the illustrative example would seem to say
otherwise.  It would seem to illustrate that a reporter can't complete the
report, where 'complete' is the part where the regular reporter clicks a
box called 'Send Reports Now' as opposed to "Cancel" or "Preview reports".

It would seem that the parser 'configuration' should show a devnull
address for the report addressee than no opportunity for the reporter to
send/report the devnull.



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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin