Re: Batch processing?

Spam Eviscerator wrote:
> Mike Easter

>> Pre-approved quick reporting by email submission submits many spams
>> at a time, whose parser derived spamsources are assumed
>> 'autoapproved' right or wrong with resultant reporting of all of the
>> sources and no spamvertisers without further reporter action on any
>> parser links required.
>
> How does one get them "pre-approved" for quick reporting?

You beseech the deputies/admin to approve your account to be able to
quick report.

> I've
> already added my mailhosts to the appropriate place in SC.  And
> besides, I've inspected the spams in my junk folder before I sent
> them on to SC for reporting (so there's no likelihood of my reporting
> my own ISP--at least that hasn't happened since I've added my own
> mailhosts).

All of those efforts will diminish significantly the chances of
misparsed spamheaders from naming your own provider as source, but it
can still happen.  There's a potential for parser parsing errors and
there's a potential for other, reporter errors -- each oversight step
reduces the chances of errors.

> Currently, what I've done after emailing the spam submissions, is to
> click "Report Spam" and then approve them for transmittal one by one.
> This one-by-one approval is what's driving me nuts.  Is there a screen
> that I'm not aware of that allows me to list all submitted spams with
> perhaps a checkbox beside each so I can check them all off and do a
> mass submission?

No, there is not a screen.  If you are approved for quick reporting your
submit address will have a different address and a different result.
That is, you make a request to service <at> admin.spamcop.net to be
approved for quick reporting.  Then you will have a different submit
address to send the spams.  The result of sending to that address will
be that you don't have parser reporting approval links to click.

>> Because there is some hazard of errant reporting of parser errors by
>> quickreporting, every configurable effort should be made to reduce
>> the chances of reporting your own provider by configuring for
>> mailhosts before any quickreporting begins.
>
> I understand.  I have already done this, both by registering my own
> mailhosts at SC and inspecting the spams held in my Eudora Junk
> mailbox before I invoke an AppleScript which automatically creates
> and sends the spams, complete with headers, one per email, to SC for
> further processing.

The mailhosts will help.  The advantage of your own inspecting is to
prevent your submitting something which isn't a spam.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin