[SC-Help] Re: Giving them my email

[Erin]

Mike Easter wrote:
> 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, the longer assumption was correct.

I googled 'listwashing'. Are you saying there is no ethical way to clear 
an email address of spam besides shutting it down or using some kind of 
blocking? I don't mind 'mungeing' from my own address, but I don't get 
very much spam - maybe 1 or 2 a week. However, I'm trying to cut down on 
my mom's spam for her, and I can't have access to her account (at 
hotmail) forever. Is there nothing I can do for her?

Also, I subscribed (paid $15) yesterday and never received an email from 
SpamCop. It said to wait 8 hours for an email before pasting the 
confirmation, and now I can't find the page to paste it to. Where do I 
go? Is it normal to not get a reply?

Thank you for your patience with the newbie.

Erin