[SpamCop-List] Re: What do you say in a manual report?

[Mike Easter]

D.F. Manno wrote:
> If I do want to send a manual report, what should I say?

IMO...

Not very much.  But the recipient should not be 'confused' about why
they got the notify;  that is, their role should be identified, provider
for source/proxy, spamvertiser, open relay, upstream of a non-responsive
[spews or spamhaus listed] or whatever.  Most of those take less than
half a line, unresponsive might take more than 1 line.

The notify isn't a place to be lecturing about anything, I don't think,
in spite of what the SC faq sez about comments
http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/126.html - add additional
comments to the spam report.

I like to notify unresponsives in the same mail that I'm notifying their
upstreams with - so they can see what I'm doing.

> Should I
> munge the spam before sending? Should I send the report from the same
> address I received the spam at, or should I use a throwaway account?

Mungeing advice is all over the place, ranging from those who notify
unmunged from the spammed address - which certainly facilitates
listwashing - to those who ubermunge and send from a throwaway or other
anonymizing strategy.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin