[SpamCop-List] Re: Is it possible to submit spam via email without having toverify it online?

[Skiwi]

Mike Easter wrote:
> posted to spamcop & spamcop.mail, f/ups to spamcop
> 
> Micheal Espinola Jr wrote:
>> I perform substantial checks before my own automated system send out
>> spam reports.  I would like to contribute to the spamcop RBL system,
>> but report spam to it is extremely cumbersome.

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> 
> Another alternative is quick reporting, which has requirements and
> disadvantages.  The requirements for quick reporting are that your
> request to quick report has to be approved, and you also have to be
> configured for a mailhosted account, which is described here
> http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/397.html  How do I configure
> Mailhosts for SpamCop?

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> If a reporter is both mailhosted and approved to be a quick reporter,
> then many spams can be submitted by email at one time, and all of the
> spams are parsed for spamsource and reported without any approval
> process by the reporter.  That lack of oversight can cause a reporter to
> report their own mailhost many times if the parser makes an error, which
> could result in the reporter's own provider becoming blocklisted and
> causing significant grief to the reporter -- including loss of email
> account.

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To help avoid this, I personally 'fully report' 4 to 5 spams a days 
(i.e., "Queue for reporting and send to trash") to try and make sure 
that the mailhost config. has not been changed - and then report the 
rest (majority) by "Quick reporting"