[SpamCop-List] Re: "Sorry, this email is too old to file a spam report"

[Steven Maesslein]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:43:47 +0000 (UTC), Larry J. coughed into spamcop
and left this in <Xns95F1F191F4D8Dlarrythefrog at 216.154.195.61>:

> Why should a day or two make any bloody difference..?  Spam is spam, 
> regardless of the date.

Because it's forcing the parser to accept and report spam that is 
essentially useless past a certain age. Furthermore, tampering with the 
datestamp means one or both of 2 things:

1) The ISP won't be able to identify the perp if they're given an 
incorrect date and time to find out who had the dynamic IP address at 
that given point in time.

2) It shows that you've falsified something if the ESMTP ID and the 
datestamp don't match. Ergo, you are untrustworthy and your report will 
be discarded, possibly followed by a LART back to SpamCop.

> If your car was stolen on Monday, but you didn't notice it gone until 
> Wednesday, wouldn't you still report it missing..?

Yes, but I wouldn't claim that it'd been *stolen* on Wednesday (which is
what falsifying the datestamp in the headers amounts to). I'd say that I
saw it for the last time on Sunday or whenever it was.

-- 
Steve

The most difficult years of marriage are those following the wedding.