[SC-Help] Re: Spamcop Misreading Headers

[Mike Easter]

WazoO wrote:
> "N. Miller" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:1fhwrbw3z4ld3.dlg at news.spamcop.net...
>>
>> I can't run somebody else's spam through my parser with mailhosts
>> set up.
>
> Use the parser without reference to your mailhosts configuration
>
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3156&st=0&p=20947&#entry20947

What that sez by Jeff G is

<snip>
It appears that you can use the parser without reference to your
mailhosts configuration if you do the following:

Parse as normal.
Copy the Tracking URL.
Cancel.
Logout (if you are using the www.spamcop.net site)
Browse to the Tracking URL, replacing members.spamcop.net or
mailsc.spamcop.net in the URL with www.spamcop.net as appropriate.
</snip>

My experience is that if someone posts a tracking URL which belongs to
their mailhosted configuration [that is, they are mailhosted and SC
parsed an item for them] and I access the tracker, what I see is a
'mailhosted' tracker, with the little 0 and 1 and 2 etc for the Received
lines.  I also see the algorithmic logic which is designed for
mailhosted users.

Mailhosted parsing is different from non-mailhosted parsing.

If I view the entire message from that tracker described above and copy
the spam & headers and go to my parser page which is not mailhosted and
have the parser parse the item anew for me, I will get a non-mailhosted
result, and I can copy that tracker and show the 'public' the difference
between what happens when the mailhosted person had the item parsed and
what happens when it is parsed by a non-mailhosted person.

I don't see how what Jeff G is saying jibes with my experience that I
just described.


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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin