[SC-Help] Re: Reporting via email takes a long time?

[Don Wannit]

Al pUzzuoli wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been a user of the Paid reporting service for some time now.  For 
> months, I was able to happily report spam by forwarding messages to my 
> submittal address.  This still works but lately, I've noticed that for 
> some reason, Spam cop can take anywhere from half an hour or more to 
> send back an acknowledgement.  
[snip]


There have been many posts from many folks over the past few weeks
about slow turnaround time when submitting spam to SpamCop.  However,
I have to say that I have not experienced the kinds of delays that
you and others mention.

I don't wait for an email acknowledgment with a "finish" link to
come back from SpamCop.  I forward spam to my submit address (and
have a few spamtraps which have never been valid addresses but are
subject to dictionary attacks).  Some time later, when it's convenient
to me, I log in to SC at the member login page, and click [repeatedly]
on the Report Now link to finish.

No need to wait for the email to come back, just do it when it's ready,
and when I have time.  If I don't have time, some spam gets old and
rancid.  (OK, more rancid than it was to begin with)   Such is life.

So I don't honestly know if there is a long delay before the email
comes back from SC with the link for finishing the report, because
I ignore that email; in fact, I have procmail set up to trash that
message.

Since you're a paying member, you might want to see if SC is ready
for you to complete the spam reports even though you have not yet
received the email with the link.  Could be that the delay is in
the sending of that email, and not in the SC pre-processing of
the submitted spam.


-- 
Don Wannit <edb2000 -at- spamcop.net>
A paid SpamCop user since 1999