Re: Spamcop Web Service?

Neo Geshel wrote...

Is there a web service that I can connect to in terms of spam reporting?
What about spam submission? If there is nothing now, will there be one
made available in the future?

I am looking to roll my own implementation of the "report spam" pages,
to make them much more performance-orientated and cut out features that
I have no need nor interest for. Additionally, I would love to implement
it as an AJAX app on my own server.

The problem is, the only way of reliably doing it without a web service
is via screen-scraping, which breaks every time a significant change to
the reporting process is implemented. I would rather not do it via
screen scraping, so I am curious if a web service is or will be
available for members.

I am just a user, not an admin, but I would guess that Spamcop wishes
to retain full control of what gets reported and what the reporter sees
while doing it, and that avoiding false reports is a lot more important
than "performance" (which I assume means "report many spams very
quickly").

I went through the same thinking at first, because I get a lot of spam
and no (almost no?) ham on one address and would like to bulk-report
it, but I came to realize that spamcop has spamtraps that do exactly
that without the risk of a false report that I would be causing if I bulk
reported or even sped up my reporting and spent less time eying each
spam.  I decided that the best way for me to contribute my effort is to
report the very freshest spam that I see, and to take the time to verify
that every report I send is a report of real spam.  I think Spamcop
needs quality  a lot more than it needs quantity; they can get more
spam any time they wish by setting up more spamtraps.

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G.M.