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

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t6038-50.html
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> The forum discussion and question about requiring 2 seems to have never
> been confirmed by anyone, unless you can find it in that forum
> discussions which I don't like to dredge thru' repeatedly looking for
> something.  I prefer nice simple plaintext to dig thru' instead of html.

Ummmm ... RW / Richard is one of the Deputies ....

> The 'illustration' of information from a spamcop parse in the 2nd link
> which would seem to imply that 2 reporters are required was
> 'discordant' -- in that the parser's verbose output mentioned a 2
> reporter 'requirement' which wasn't met, but then 'turned around' and
> said there were two reporters.

RW did say to "read carefully" ..... the question was about an IP address
getting listed by a single reporter .... the answer was dealing with an IP
address that had been listed already, such that another report was seen
as a "reoccurrence" of the spew .... not quite the same thing.  Not
addressed at all was just how (in that case) just two reports could have
been sufficient to trip the flag .... but that's a whole different issue.

> And, my experience with the verbose is that it cannot be counted on to
> say what it really means or mean what it says -- and in any case the
> algorithm and its verbose are highly dynamic, unstable, and perpetually
> changing and cannot be relied upon as a 'real' verification of a
> requirement which hasn't been verified in the faq or by a deputy or
> Julian that I can find so far.

And I doubt you will .. that "not for public consumption" thing again ...

> I only see people 'assuming' it to be the case.  I think they are
> confused by the verified one report concept -- melding it into a one
> reporter concept.

Once again, dialog with the Deputies has them repeatedly advising
that the two-reporter thing is a fact .... but even I'll point out that
these folks are not the actual coders of the toolset ....