[SpamCop-List] Re: New SPAM ploy Suggest changes to Spamcop

[Jim Seymour]

Matthew Kitchin wrote:
> How is spamcop supposed to know the random URLs from the ones that are being
> used in the spam? Spammers have been planting legitimate URLs in their spam
> for as long as I can remember. If you are going to report links, make sure
> they aren't innocent bystanders.

In the examples provided, the <A> marker is *immediately* followed by 
the </A>.  This is clearly not a clickable link and should be ignored by 
Spamcop.

I recall this issue came up before.  Perhaps it's difficult to implement 
or will cause some unspecified troubles.

-- 
Jim Seymour.
I do not work for Spamcop, I did not write pflogsumm,
and I never wrote for PC Magazine.