[SC-Help] Re: Unstoppable picture spam.

[Mike Easter]

Asterix wrote:

> Please tell me how to report spam without opening it (and make sure
> it's spam. By the way, it's years since I saw a web bug (fone home
> thingy).

My spam is 'combed' by SpamPal so that it is tagged with a spam label in
its subject and given header Xlines defining how the spam was so
categorized before it arrives at my mua OE.  OE puts the spamtagged
items into the Junk folder.  If I want to see why an item was tagged, I
can examine its header Xlines by looking at its message properties
without opening it.

If I should really want to know more about what it inside, I can examine
the rest of its message properties including the unrendered body 'with
my own eyes'.  That process is of course slower and less sophisticated
than how SpamPal has already more thoroughly examined it while accessing
spam database DNSBL lookups as well as churning through the body using
regular expression conditions far too complex to be performed by a mere
human brain.

Opening a spam to find out what is inside is a practice I discourage
except in some kind of 'advanced' spamfighting and then only for some
very good reason, perhaps 'teaching' spam forensics or something.  It is
far too often performed by those who are simply curious spamhandlers.

The concept of opening a spam to find out if it is spam is totally
foreign to me.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin