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

[Cat]

Mike Easter wrote:

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> 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.

Tell that to web based e-mail sites like Yahoo and force them to 
redesign their site so that you can get that info without opening spam. 
Like I said before, until sites like Yahoo and Gmail have that ability, 
the only way anyone can report spam to those addresses is to open it. I 
don't get spam at my Gmail address, only to my Yahoo address, but I'm 
certainly not going to give up on spam reporting and resort to a rather 
wimpy "just hit delete" mode just because there's no way to get raw html 
without opening it. I have my settings so that images in all e-mail are 
blocked, so I can open it safely. Resorting to "just hit delete" lets 
the spammers get away with spamming. I'd much rather be able to report 
them if it means getting them shut down instead of sticking my head in 
the sand and ignoring it if it means having to open the spam. I do 
understand that some spam comes through foreign ISPs where complaints 
will just be ignored, but I'd rather be able to report the spam so that 
ISPs that actually disconnect spammers can do something about the 
situation instead of "just hit delete." Then there are also cases like I 
mentioned in a previous post where I would have accidentally deleted 
important e-mail in a few rare cases if I hadn't looked at it because a 
quick look at the subject and from lines looked a little spammy.