Sounds like something that would be easy for them to improve. I hope that you've given them the recommendation of exposing the data in TXT records.

I just started building some spamtraps myself, and before I can make use of them, I'm going to have to weed out at least the large ISP and broadband mail servers. Seems like common sense to me.

Matt



R. Scott Perry wrote:


SpamCop is a very important test, and I would imagine that with a week's work, they could correct all issues with tagging mail servers that handle over 50% of legitimate E-mail traffic in the US.


For years, I have thought that they should return the spam/total ratio for mailservers (which they keep track of), in a TXT record. That would give people the option of choosing their own level. Clearly mail from a mailserver that has 98 legitimate E-mails for every 2 spams reported is much more likely to be wanted than mail from a mailserver where there are 0 legitimate E-mail for every 100 spams reported.

To get around the problem of requiring special support to process the TXT records, they could do something like return 127.0.0.1 for a mailserver that has 0-10% spam, 127.0.0.2 for one that has 11-20% spam, etc. While not as precise as using the TXT record, it would be compatible with existing spam programs.

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