[SpamCop-List] Re: How can I report SPAM *without* opening the e-mail?

[Andy Miller]

Hi,

Thanks for all the help.

I have found: http://www.freewebs.com/7wells/visbas/source/spamcop.html to 
be of tremendous help. I do use OL, not OE. I use OE for newsgroups. Using 
OL was a conscious choice but so long ago that I don't recall why. Of course 
uniformity with the tools used at my work play strongly into it.

Anyway, that OL macro is great. It doesn't work for me as is (SC is always 
unhappy with the headers, though they sure look fine (and not rewrapped) to 
me), but I changed the macro to write out the headers and the body (as text) 
to a simple text file. From there I can easily (read *safely*) copy and 
paste into the SC web-based reporting tool -- not even forced to use the 
OL-special report mechanism.

I am concerned that cut-'n-paste is "tampering with the evidence" but from 
the descriptions it seems, with OL, that's a lost cause by the time I got 
the e-mail. :-(. "Evidence" matters to me because, well, I'm MAD. I want 
*prosecution*, not just extermination of the e-mail from my inbox. As it 
stands, any e-mail not from my "white-list" is de facto SPAM and so I could 
get rid of it pretty quickly. But that's still an insult to me. And I can't 
ever get info from unknowns in my genealogical pursuits. Why don't I see 
"Spammer jailed" in the headlines? A stream of those prosecutions would 
likely do more for us than just temporarily inconveniencing the Spammers.

/Andy

"Michael Brennan" <Nobody at Spamcop.net.dev.null> wrote in message 
news:43B598F3.1865148B at Spamcop.net.dev.null...
> Andy Miller wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use MS Outlook. I'm happy to do the Options-Headers thing and report 
>> all
>> headers but I really don't like actually opening the SPAM mail. Sure I 
>> have
>> virus scanners but still I don't like opening mail that was unsolicited 
>> and
>> from an unknown source.
>>
>> I read somewhere that forwarding from Outlook wasn't "good enough" but 
>> even
>> if it were the operation of forwarding would open the e-mail.
>>
>> Can't I just send in a report with the whole *unopened* e-mail as an
>> attachment?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andy
>
>
> Andy,
>
> I use Outlook Express for e-mail (I'm using Netscape for this
> newsgroup).   From the main window of Outlook Express, highlight the
> suspected spam message and select Message/Forward as Attachment.
>
> It's better if you do not configure your main mail window in OE to
> preview.  I compensate for that by going offline before handling any
> spam.  This doesn't always work as desired -- OE has a bad habit of
> default-selecting the next mail and previewing or even opening it, when
> another mail is filed or deleted; I wish I could turn that feature off,
> but there you are.  It makes trying to look at goodmail while online a
> risky proposition, since the accidentally-previewed spam may contain
> HTML with an IMG SRC web beacon that will activate when the message is
> previewed, and give the spammer an "opened" receipt, which is just what
> he's looking for, to put your e-mail address on his next "5,000,000
> Premium Sucker Addresses" CD-ROM.
>
> Better just to pull the plug and deal with mail offline.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Michael