[SC-Help] Re: Giving them my email

[Mike Easter]

Erin wrote:
> I'm new to this whole thing. Is it a very bad idea to put in the
> message "Take my email, emailwhere at spamwasreceived.com, off your
> list!"?

Assumption1:  your question means "When I submit a spam to the spamcop
parser for parsing and reporting, and the spamcop reporting form
provides me with an opportunity to...

 - Send reports now
 - Preview reports
 - Cancel

... followed by another section which provides me with an opportunity
to...

 - enter comments for each of the 'Report spam to: ' entities, that I
should enter this sentence '"Take my email,
emailwhere at spamwasreceived.com off your list!" into that comments
section which will be mailed to the providers for the spamsource and for
the spamvertisers as a method of communicating with the actual spammer
to stop spamming me?"

Answer to assumption1:  No, that isn't a good sentence to enter into the
comments section, since the comments are ostensibly being directed to
the respective providers, not the spammer per se.

If your goal is to leave the spam intact instead of the standard spamcop
mungeing of the addresses in the To, CC, and Received lines, that is
configurable in the Preferences section for Reporting preferences - 8th
section - for mungeing "Leave spam copies intact".  You could also
provide your name and spammed email address to those providers in the
1st section of that Preferences where the 'Disply name' goes.

> I actually want to get my email off these lists instead of
> having to block them.

I'm interpreting that as saying "I don't mind being listwashed by those
spammers who do listwashing." -- as opposed to the antispammers who are
against listwashing.

> Even if one spammer gets knocked offline, my
> email is still on whatever list is floating around out there. Is it
> not a better idea to have my email marked as potentially dangerous if
> you send spam to me?

I'm interpreting that as saying that you feel that the spamcop report
will knock a spammer offline, and you would like for all of the spammers
to remove your address from their list because your address is
potentially dangerous to them because you are now a spamcop reporter.

You are apparently thinking that if you put that sentence above into
your reports to the providers for spamsources and spamvertisers that
somehow it will aid in the result of your address being removed from
spammer lists.

No.  It will not.  Without further elaboration until you clarify my
assumptions about what you are asking, because sometimes people
think....

Assumption2:  If I respond to the Remove address or Remove link, will
the spammers remove me from their mailing list?

.... which is a different question than the longer one I posted in
Assumption1 above.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin