[SpamCop-List] Re: how to report 250 spams

[Steven Maesslein]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:42:57 -0500, Rob coughed into spamcop and left
this in <d1c8hj$itl$1 at news.spamcop.net>:

> Yes i am drop the same but still get 250 spam email at night. and my finger 
> hurts after 500 clicks!
> is there a different way to do this (i thougt buing fuell would help but it 
> did not)

First of all, please don't top-post. It gets the "conversation" all out 
of order and people have to read backwards to find out what's going on.

As for your problem, one solution would be to get a paid spamcop.net 
e-mail account.

You'd then have to set up your "mailhosts" configuration so that SC 
"knows" where to expect mail from and doesn't label *your* servers as 
the source of spam.

Test a few spams by submitting them and reporting as usual, and if 
nothing untoward happens you can then start quick-reporting them.

In order to do so, you start submitting them to:

quick.<16-char-code>@spam.spamcop.net instead of:

submit.<16-chat-code>@spam.spamcop.net

When quick-reporting spam, only the admin of the source IP address is 
sent a report, but you don't have to confirm anything. It's fire and 
forget, but you *must* make sure that the parser is determining 
correctly the source of the spam before switching to "autopilot". I also 
believe you have to activate the quick-reporting facility after you log 
in, and that it is deactivated automatically whenever you change your 
mailhost configuration (but you can reactivate it afterwards).

-- 
Steve

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. 
 But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 
 No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."  
                  -- Eleanor Roosevelt