Re: Wondering about how SpamCop works two or more users]

Patty wrote:

> I only know that I've been told the log trace from Covad is showing
> only one person reporting.

I'm assuming that what covad gets is the SC report of being spamsource
provider.

A SC report will provide a link to the evidence, but the report is sent
from spamcop, not the reporter, regardless of whether that is a single
repetitive IP address, it only means the source of the report remains
the same, namely spamcop's IP.

The reporter's addy in the evidence To would be munged by standard or
default SC munge unless overridden by some action of the reporter or
requirement of the notified provider, and the evidence itself would
permit analysis of the headers of the mailing list item/s which were
received by the reporter.

<now the guessing and assuming gets more 'loose' and 'guessy'>

Those items would show the 'mailbox' server for the recipient, such as
AOL, but if any addresses of the recipient would have appeared in the
recipient's headers in such as Received tracelines, those too would have
been spamcop munged by the standard or default algorithm function on the
handling of the evidence which is linked in the report to the providers
for spamvertiser or source.

So, the point of that long description is that I would think that the
conclusion might be that all of the reports are being received by a user
of only one provider, namely AOL, but not necessarily one 'person' -- 
since I'm thinking the person isn't being identified by username
address, but only by mailbox server.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin