[SpamCop-List] Re: I must share this one [C&C]

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Mike Easter skrev:
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> Before anyone starts the 'debate' about spamfighters reading spam or not,
> anyone debating the issue on the side of spamreading has to
> 
>  - describe or assure the security they use while reading spam

When the spam is in my spamcop held mail log 
(http://mailsc.spamcop.net/reportheld?action=heldlog/)
I reckon I can read anything safely. I don't follow links, see below
If the spam has got through spamcop's censorship and is in my regular 
mailbox (mozilla), I disconnect from the internet, open the msg to check 
whether it is spam, forward to spamcop and move the spamitem to trash 
before going online again. I hope that is sufficient.
>  - roughly approximate what percentage of their spam they read

Nowadays, after mailhost was introduced, roughly 85 % of my spam is 
quick-reported. The rest is reported, and if it is not obvious who 
should be notified in accordance with Marjolein's website, I inspect the 
spam. Rarely I find it entertaining reading.
>  - 'explain' how they decide which spams to read

see above
>  - answer how often they visit a spamvertised site to 'further' satisfy
> their curiosity or interest

Never. I have not bothered to find out about secure ways to do it, 
therefore I don't do it. While I did a lot of foolish things before I 
discovered spamcop, I believe I have never followed a spam link.

>  - define approximately how often they make additional notifies on the
> basis of spamreading, and how.

Always if there is some text element that helps, like notifying 
adobe/macromedia in addition to microsoft, or finding someting like 
enlar[ment, not discovered by spamassassin.

>  - answer whether or not they are pledged to never aid or profit a
> spammer

Even before I read about the pledge, I never considered buying anything 
from sources I could not trust.
> 
> --
> Mike Easter
> kibitzer, not SC admin
>
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