Re: Does it work?

On Thu, 04 May 2006 08:40:56 +0100, Gareth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am new to spamcop. I recently opened an email account with my ISP 
> which has obviously been used before and receives around 10 spams per day.
> I have been reporting all the spam for nearly a month now but have not 
> noticed any change in the volume of spam I receive.
> Is this normal? Should I persevere or are these spammers just too good 
> at avoiding being being blocked?

Adding my perspective to those of previous posters:

Spamcop doesn't keep spammers from sending you spam, but
it does two useful things:

 1. Spamcop makes it easy to report spammers, which you
    might want to do for public-spiritedness; and

 2. Spamcop gives you some good spam-sorting tools to
    facilitate finding the wheat among the chaff.

The parts that I find useful are:

 - the Held Mail folder, particularly the (unlabeled) "select all"
   box and the "Report as Spam" button;

 - the Filters;

 - the whitelist; and

 - the web-form-based Report Spam page (http://mailsc.spamcop.net),
   for spam that sneaks past all the guards and makes it to my
   Linux box. My ISP (Charter) silently discards email I send that
   looks like spam, so I can't just forward spam to my Spamcop
   reporting email address.

If you read French, you can find detailed usage suggestions on
Jean-Daniel Dodin's wiki:

  http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/SpamCop

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