Re: SpamCop Issues - Just Curious

On 30.04.2006 19:00, Mike Easter wrote:

 --- Original Message ---

> User wrote:
>> Mike Easter wrote:
>>> User wrote:
> 
>>>> Also appears that a great deal of this spam is channeled through
>>>> open-relays.
>>>
>>> The term 'open relay' applies to open smtp relays.  I see virtually
>>> no spam coming thru' open relays these days.  Perhaps you mean
>>> injected an an 'open' or available proxy trojan user IP.  That is a
>>> different mechanism than an open smtp relay.
>>
>> Approximately 25% of all spam I report to SC says:
>>
>>   xxx.xxx.xxx is an "open relay"
> 
> I would like to see that exactly.  If you can post a tracker to one of
> those items, I can comment on it.
> 
> A tracker looks like:
> 
> http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z931595589ze19c2f93bcb5c03ec48ca212323eda79z
> 
> and it is found at the top of the spam parse before cancelling or
> reporting.  If you want to use an old one you have already reported, you
> can access it with a reportid which is a little complicated to explain
> how to do, or you could just parse it again and copy the tracker and
> then cancel the report and then paste the tracker here.
> 

Next time I report one, I'll post a tracker. Thanks ....