[SC-Help] Re: Unstoppable picture spam.

[Asterix]

Mike Easter <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote:

> Asterix wrote:
> 
> > I didn't say my software prohibits me - it's rather Spamcop's web
> > form. Eudora lets me forward the spam to a sumbission address without
> > inspection, but then I completely lose control of where the reports
> > go. Examining the X-lines is of limited or no interest for that
> > purpose.
> 
> I could use Eudora with SpamPal.  SpamPal would identify and tag 'all'
> of my spam and tag none of my goodmail.  I could use Eudora to the
> submit and submit all of my spams at one time I presume.  The parser
> reporter would provide me with links for each and every spam and then I
> could go to the tracker link to oversee and report the spam which I
> haven't opened yet.

[and so on] 

The procedure you describe just sounds way too tedious, and my guess 
is that's why you don't do it yourself any more ...  Copy-n-paste - 
or even better, drag-n-drop - into the web form is as efficient as this
game ever gets. More work is not worth the effort - to me.
 
> Most of what I try to 'advise' or teach about mail/spam handling is what
> I recommend to the 'masses' which includes the majority of spamcop
> reporters.  Some advanced spamfighters do all kinds of things I don't
> recommend to the mass of SC reporters, including going to the website
> and exploring it.

Aah - the "uneducated masses". Heard that one before. The masses 
are smarter than you think. But of course there are some morons, too.

Anyway parts of your advice are blunt and miss the target.
- what do you mean by reading spam subjects receptively ?
    (English is *not* my mother language)
- I don't read spam bodies for content, but for links and for
appearances of my address in the body. OK - that is contents ? :-)
- Who would get the idea of reading Spammy's mind ?

Unlike them I don't use Windows, so I can open next to anything with
next to zero risk.

> > And you didn't tell Nigel that the site
> > http://www.thestocktongroup.com/ is alive and kicking (maybe it
> > wasn't yesterday)
> 
> Yesterday it didn't resolve, today it is 66.226.64.30  rDNS
> pro29.abac.com
> Abacus America
> NetRange:   66.226.64.0 - 66.226.95.255
> OrgAbuseEmail:  abuse at aplus.net
> 
> not currently blocklisted anywhere, including spews or spamhaus, so the
> present IP doesn't have a history of unresponsiveness.

So they got a new IP ? - didn't think of that.

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