[SpamCop-List] Technology / feature question

[René Kabis]

I was wondering if there is a feature request capability built into (or 
hidden in) the SpamCop service.

The reason why I'm asking is that I believe myself to be a moderate 
submitter of spam (usually between 100 and 800 pieces per day, with 
occasional bursts of up to over 1000/day, provided MailWasher doesn't 
crash with that volume) and since I use MailWasher to report the spam, 
spending several hours every night clicking the "unreported spam saved" 
link on the spamcop page becomes rather tedious.

Aside from my three personal accounts, the other 20 e-mail accounts I 
monitor are all, without exception, spam honeypots. Everything that 
comes into them is automatically forwarded onto SpamCop.

I would like to see a feature where the "confirm spam" page is seriously 
slimmed down (a basic list of ISP e-mails, and no comment boxes), and 
multiple e-mails can be confirmed from the same page. User-definable, 
too, so someone with a large monitor can confirm 100 e-mails at a time, 
whereas others can remain with the default 1.

I would also like to see an option where the "munged e-mail refused" 
option can be turned off. That is, a setting where an ISP that refuses 
munged e-mails has its checkbox automatically checked off. Right now, I 
have to select every checkbox where an ISP refuses munged e-mail. This 
also slows me down quite a bit.

I would also like to see the number of e-mails remaining to be 
processed, normally I can only see this number if I "dump" them all (and 
then they are dumped from the system and not reported... so this is no 
good!) This will allow me to make a decision on whether to press on 
processing saved spam at 2AM or whether to just hit the sack and leave 
the rest 'till next evening.

I would also like to see some enhanced statistics, so I can tell if the 
"average reporting time" I have is for my entire history, or only for 
the last 20,000 pieces of spam reported or whatnot. Having it broken up 
into more detail would also show me my recent reporting history, as well 
as long-term trends in my spam reporting (and how much on the ball I've 
been).

Please understand, I have no need for the "paid" part of the service. 
I'm not looking to have spam filtered, I'm just looking to report it, 
and also hoping for a few more tools to make my job easier. I hope that 
I am reporting enough on a regular basis to make my requests reasonable 
ones, and that my contributions are enough of a value to realize these 
requests.




Other than that, I must say that SpamCop has certainly come a long way. 
The new interface is very nice and professional, and I really like it a 
lot! Moving to HTML 4.0 Transitional has also helped, as all of the 
bandwidth-hogging tables and <FONT> tags are now gone. YAY! However, I'm 
surprised that SpamCop didn't go the final step or so and make their 
entire interface XHTML 1.1 Strict compliant. It wouldn't have taken 
much. But hey, that's just me being picky. =)

TIA.
...René Kabis