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

[Mike Easter]

Jeff G. wrote:
> I was actually thinking of a post of a couple weeks ago where you said
> one shouldn't be opening spam for any reason - I may has misconscrewed
> something in that post - no matter now, we're all together here,
> farting into the wind...

There are different reasons for different people that they shouldn't be
opening or reading their spam.

Let's say they are an ordinary citizen non-reporter -- one of the
masses.  I don't want them getting spam mixed up into their goodmail in
their inbox, I don't want them reading spam subjects and getting curious
about what is inside, I don't want them opening spam to see if it is
spam because they are confused by the subject, I don't want them
'unpledged' to never help or 'buy' a spamvertised item, I don't want
them opening spam insecurely, and I definitely don't want them clicking
on something they see in a spam.

So, I want them configured so that all of their spam is directed away
from their inbox.  I want them securely mentally disciplined so that
they can visit a Junk folder and make sure there isn't a goodmail in
there while they massively delete all of the spam without opening any of
it;  and I want them to be able to move the occasional spam in their
inbox into the Junk without opening it.  I also want them pledged to be
completely disinterested in whatever might be inside a spam offering to
sell a brand new Crossfire convertible for $1000 because they aren't
interested in any product being sold in a spam.


Let's say they are a 'simple' spamcop reporter.  I don't mean simple
mentally.  I mean someone who is interested in reporting their spam with
spamcop.  They aren't a highly skilled javascript deobfuscator or cgi
cracker who is tracking down the payment methods or parties on some
spammer's website.  They are simply receiving their spam and simply
reporting it, including its spamvertisers, and simply not reporting
innocent bystanders.  Maybe they have some additional notifies, but that
is fodder for a larger subject.

I want that person to be configured so that all of their spam is
directed away from their inbox, let's say by spampal or by spamcop mail,
and securely mentally disciplined and able to move an occasional spam.
They also don't need to be opening their spam for anything.  They can
submit it to the parser and see its headers which have been 'policed' by
spampal or spamassassin and tell that it is spam.  They can see the
url/s because spamcop has displayed them.  They can tell what is or
isn't an IB, or they can look at the raw unrendered html if they need to
clarify.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin