Re: Loads of spam showing "Delviery Status Notification", "Failure Notice" etc.

Herbert Eppel wrote:

> I have the same problem as the one reported by Rowan on 16 April, and
> I would like to get to the bottom of it, but I'm not quite sure how to
> create a tracker.

Okay.

> Mike said "You get it by submitting one of those spams you are trying
> to describe to the webparser", but I'm not sure where I can find this
> webparser and how exactly I can submit messages.
>
> Can you help?

Sure.

First you have to become a [theoretical or real] free or paid SpamCop
reporter by registering.

http://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml  Getting Started

Be sure you read all of the rules about the responsibilities of being a
reporter;  and the faq about how to obtain complete headers of spam with
your mailuser agent.  Naturally the responsibilities apply to those SC
reports which are going to be actually sent, not just parsed and copy a
tracker and then cancelled if that is what is your interest and purpose.

You will be emailed an authorization letter which contains the username
which is the email address you provided, a password which is 8
alphanumerics case sensitive, and a link to a couple of different ways
to log in, with or without cookies.

When you are properly logged in, this page will display a webparser
http://www.spamcop.net/  Welcome, xxxx

You paste your spam into that parser which spam with complete headers
was obtained by the guidelines here
http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/19.html  How do I get my email
program to reveal the full, unmodified email?

If your mailuser agent is Tbird, you use this link
http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/21.html  Netscape, Mozilla and
Thunderbird

Then you paste the spam into the webparser which will provide a tracking
UJRL at the top of the page which is in this environment

Here is your TRACKING URL - it may be saved for future reference:
http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z921452706z5f80c3536f02ccd15f431f0fc87fc372z

You copy that tracker so that you can paste it into a news message here
and then you cancel the report, unless you have chosen to send it
according to the responsibilities described in the rules.

> Thank you.

YW.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin