[SpamCop-List] Re: Deputies: "This message looks like a bounce, will not report."

[Mike Easter]

N. Miller wrote:
> Mike Easter says...
>
>> That is a very interesting change.  It allows virus reporting, virus
>> bounce reporting, spam bounce reporting, as well as challenge
>> reporting which it always has.
>
> Note that the adjectival verb "misdirected" is placed before each
> category you mentioned.

Yes, but....

First, the virus reporting itself has a separate par which allows virus
reporting per se

Second, these days *all* virus notifications are misdirected, because no
current viruses are being propagated with the infected user's addy in
the From.  That is, if you get a virus notification, you can be assured
that it wasn't you who sent the virus you are being notified about.

Third, yes;  I meant the challenge for a mail you didn't send, namely a
spam [or virus] with your addy in the From.

> Note also, in the case of viruses, that it is
> not viruses, themselves, which can be reported, but misdirected
> notification of viral infections.

I'll cite again what some seem to be missing under the list of
misdirected issues:

Viruses -- Viruses are another form of spam and may be reported to
SpamCop as such.

> Presumably, the reporter needs to
> discern between notifications, bounces, and challenges which were
> properly sent to the correct email address, and their misdirected
> counterparts.

Well;  personally I completely agree that the reporter needs to be so
discerning.  But, while being discerning, I'm saying that it appears to
me that I can report virus receipts as spam, I can report misdirected
challenges for spam and virms, and I can report virm and spam bounces,
all of which are going to be misdirected.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin