[SC-Help] Re: spam that looks like bounces

[Mike Easter]

Martin Edwards wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> keith wrote:
>>> I'm sure this has been raised at some point, but there seems to be
>>> an increasing amount of junk mail (leaving out the netsky stuff)
>>> that looks like a bounce but with a prominent URL in it

>> Almost all 'bounces' are actually bounces and cannot be spamcop
>> reported.

> I can't agree with your first comment: I get dozens of false bounces,
> many of them on a Netscape account, which show clearly that they were
> virus-generated because they have been stripped.  On days when the
> spam is not too heavy I do what you say: parse the header and report
> them manually.

The OP restricted the discussion to *spam* items when he sed "leaving
out the netsky stuff" - which I interpreted as virms in general.  And,
/I/ restricted the discussion to 'bounces' in quotes - in which I was
trying to imply or suggest that most of the time that people post
something in .spam that is a spam which spamcop interpreted as a bounce
which they think is /not/ a bounce, that in fact it is.

Also notice the OP's Subject - spam that /looks like/ a bounce - to
address what the OP feels is both spam not virm and also he tho't /not/
a bounce.  What I was trying to say is that almost all of the time that
people have posted a spamitem here which they think is /not/ a bounce,
it /is/ a bounce.

However, we are or I am making a lot of words about what the OP was
'saying' - when in fact it would be oh so much better if we were
actually talking about a particular *item* which the OP had in mind,
instead of something hypothetical.  Discussing hypothetical vaguely
described or referred items instead of the real thing is a big waste of
time, IMO.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin