[SpamCop-List] Re: Yum this spam is fresh!

[michael lefevre]

"Dave Hicks" <davehicks@/notospam/mac.com> wrote in message
news:010220012139413861%davehicks@/notospam/mac.com...
> More than 50% (today it's been nearer 90%) of the UCE I parse and
> report through SpamCop comes back with the message "Yum this spam is
> fresh!"
>
> Q:
> Am I simply at the top of far too many lists / being targetted by lots
> of spammers ?
> Am I getting lots of the chinese/korean stuff first because I'm closer
> (Australia) to the source ?
> Is is because I respond to the crud fairly quickly ?

it's the last one, the first two wouldn't make any difference to that...
the "freshness" in spamcop terms is the time between the spam hitting
your mailbox and you reporting it... if it's less than 2 hours, you get
that message (and the report sent is tagged with "RECENT" in the subject
line)

michael