[SpamCop-List] Re: Get mad by double reporting

[Cat]

Volker Lauke wrote:

(Top posting fixed. Please do not top post.)

> "Paul Johnson" <baloo at ursine.ca> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:873c6di24z.fsf at ursine.ca...

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>>English, please?  What is it you're complaining about?

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> Sorry for not speaking plain English as a non English or American.
> 
> The complain is: I process a spam on http://members.spamcop.net/sc and after
> the page pops up with "Send Spam Report now" the system asks for "Report
> Now" again on the page http://members.spamcop.net/sc. So the sequence is:
> 
> 1. Process Spam om the member site
> 2. Send Spam Report know
> 3. Report know on the members site.
> 
> This takes in my opinion unnecessary  time and doubles the server load of
> spamcop.

That is not an unnecessary step. That first step is to process the spam 
to find out where it should be sent. It is not actually being sent yet 
in that first step, so you are not sending twice if that's what you 
originally thought. The second step is to actually choose which abuse 
addresses listed in the report you want to receive the complaint. That 
second step is necessary so that you don't accidentally report your own 
ISP or don't accidentally send to the wrong place. It is YOUR 
responsibility to check to make sure the complaints are going to the 
right place. If you care anything about helping to preserve SpamCop's 
reputation with ISPs, then you should want to take the responsibility of 
making sure you don't send a wrong report. SpamCop's credibility and 
reputation depend a huge deal on SpamCop's users being responsible and 
not just blindly sending complaints anywhere without caring who receives 
the complaints. If you still think that's an unnecessary step, just 
search through the newsgroup for posts from people who messed up and 
reported their own servers or reported something as spam that wasn't 
spam or some other reporting mistake. You also might find the occasional 
post from irate abuse admins complaining about being listed because of 
irresponsible spam reporters who didn't pay attention to what they were 
sending and where. Another reason you need to try to better understand 
your responsibility as a spam reporter is that your SpamCop account can 
be cancelled if the Deputies catch you making a mistake.

-Cat
  SpamCop user, not an admin