Re: Newbie to Spamcop - Am I doing this right?

Thank you for your speedy reply, Mike.

As a sideline, the email address I use I have had for around six years now, 
and is a massive target for the spammers - I get around 100-150 spam 
messages per day.

At one point, I was very close to deleting my email account due to this 
amount of unsolicited mail (and considering sending out my own mailshot 
telling all my contacts that I had changed email addresses).

Chris

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:[email protected]...
> Chris wrote:
>
>> Just wanted to check everything was OK.
>> I set up an account with Spamcop, and my software (Mailwasher) seems
>> to handle things pretty automatically.
>
> Your MW submits the spam/s to the parser/reporting tool.
>
>> I take it that when Spamcop replys with its Autoresponder, I have to
>> click the link in the email in order to actually file a report - Is
>> this right?
>
> The parser/reporting tool parses each spam individually and determines
> the spamsource and spamvertiser provider notify addresses.  That tool
> also provides you with an opportunity to make comments and to 'observe'
> the accuracy of the determinations from a human perspective, and then to
> individually confirm or adjust each notify letter which is sent in your
> 'name' ie reportid mask.
>
> That is the 'structure'/routine for the regular reporter who is
> notifying for spamsource and spamvertisers.  Each link represents each
> individual spam, which represents its own assortment of notifies based
> on algorithmic notify address determinations.
>
>
> Currently in nanae I'm discussing issues in which some role address
> notifications were considered 'spam' by the recipient, as the recipient
> did not want to receive the notify, considered spamcop's process to be
> bulk, unsolicited, and not in the interest of the recipient.  I don't
> agree with the recipient's definition of spam in that context, and I
> believe that SC's structure for prevention and remedies to correct
> recipients getting unwanted notifies is sufficient.
>
> The recipient says that spammers say the same thing about their spam,
> which is true of course.
>
> -- 
> Mike Easter
> kibitzer, not SC admin
>