Re: Spamcop flagged a number of users from MSN as 'spam' ?

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Thanks a lot Rich. That's the motive I said "obviously MSN is not in the
spam list". I mean, given the number of MSN, I doubt the entire domain would
be have been identified as spam. If I understand correctly, spamcop flags
the IP addresses of servers.
"Rich Matheisen [MVP]" <richnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Magoo" <nospammagoo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Can you elaborate on this one ? I didn't understand.
>
> Sure. The software you use asks the question "is this IP address in a
> DNS RBL?" If the answer is "yes" then the message is dropped.
>
> However, such a binary decision penalizes "good" mail as well as "bad"
> mail. You may have customers or other legitmate correspondants that
> use an ISP that had one bad user sending spam for a while. Spamcop, if
> the IP address was reported, would list the IP address. That means
> your server won't accept mail from that IP address, no matter who sent
> it or what it contains.
>
> More sophisticated anti-smap software might add, say, 35 points to a
> message "spam score" if the transmitting IP was listed on SpamCop.
> But, until the score reached, say, 50 points, no action would be taken
> against the message.
>
> --
> Rich Matheisen
> MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
> MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm


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