[SC-Help] Re: spamvertisement reporting & a question...

[Mike Easter]

Jeff G. wrote:
> Also, given the 2 methods of choice with reporting - copying and
> pasting whole msg or forwarding, is there a benefit or preference to
> using one or the other?

The advantage of copying and pasting into the parser is that you get
'faster' rather quicker/sooner results.  The disadvantage is that there
is 'deadtime' that you need to manage constructively.  If you can
develop a 'rhythm' of keypresses to get to the message source and paste
it into the webparser, or alternatively use a keypress macro, then
'feeding' the parser is actually very efficient, one spam at a time, per
1.5 second [hypothetical].

Then, you would need a strategy to manage the deadtime, one of which
might be to use multiple iterations of parsers -- so your 'macro' of
keypresses feeds a sequence of parsers so that the individual parser's
results match up with your approval process.  That can result in no
deadtime and a continuous sequence of feeding one spam at a time into
multiple parsers whose results and approvals match up with the speed of
the parser processing.

The advantage of forwarding 'masses' of spams at a time is that you
avoid the above sequence of having to have an efficient series of
keypresses for each spamitem and of transitioning between parsers and
their report options.

The disadvantage is that you have to wait for the mailforwarded items to
get processed in their own sweet time.  The other disadvantage is that
you still have to manage the problem of accessing the numerous link/s
and and the report approval process however efficient or inefficient
that is.

Some people who 'move toward' sending masses of spams at a time get
frustrated by that links portion of the report confirmation and its
slowdown and decide to 'degenerate' [or accelerate] into quick
reporting.  Quick reporting dramatically changes the amount of time
required to report some large number of spams.  It has its dangers and
its limitations or disadvantages, but it does feed a lot of spamsources
into the SCbl without as much 'personal' time expenditure [or
oversight], and there isn't much lost these days by not reporting the
spamvertisers to their providers.  There's always the ever-present
danger of reporting your own provider if some kind of changes occur in
the headerlines of your spams.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin