When I click “Process spam� after pasting the full source of an email, I seem to get a hang in the nag screen. Going back to the SC home page shows that the spam has been accepted: “Unreported spam Saved: Report Now� link is present; but if I click it, it hangs again.

What's happening? “Postponed scheduled upgrade� (as mentioned without new date below the main textarea on the home page) in progress? Or is it something else?

N.B. From here, www.spamcop.net resolves to 80.239.148.171

I was sent what is called a SPAMVERTISMENT by searchenginebanners.net trying to get me to use their service for my site McCOMSoft.com.

I dutifully reported them using SpamCop but because I had "3rd Party Report Default" set in my Report Handling Preferences (I think this was why anyway), SpamCop sent an abuse email to my VPS hosting center Linode.com.

If I'd caught this I would have not sent it.

So I almost immediately got contacted by Linode to their credit but I quickly grew upset about the whole matter.

Q) I've turned off that 3rd party option, will this prevent future incidents like this?

Q) Why does SpamCop's email parser not have the smarts to see that a URL is the victim in an email and not the participant?

EDIT: I've taken the action of adding my host using SpamCop's mailhosts tab. I report spam using the web interface at SpamCop so I don't even know if this is related but I'm hoping it will help prevent this type of problem from occurring in the future.

I haven't used Spamcop for about 1 week, I went to sign in today and my email address was not found. I have tried resetting password but email doesn't exist. Yet when I try and rejoin with the same email it says its already in use????

Ever since my spammers, who call themselves "RxDiler", became aware that I am using SpamCop not only are the spammers making fun of me for it, but it seems like all of my reports result in "No Source IP address found."

What does this mean -- No Source IP address found??

I have tried pasting the entire message source as well as reporting it from my 2 SpamCop webmail inboxes.

Why doesn't SpamCop utilize the IP address of the blackmarket websites they link to? On a tangentially related note, please let me know if there are any groups of annoyed spam victims who get together to DDOS the spammers (if the spammers are criminals I can't imagine there's anything ethically, legally, or morally questionable about DDOSing them). I'm ready to fight back!


PS I saw on an SEO forum (I don't do SEO, I was gathering anti-spammer intelligence) that some of these ********** spammers use Nexus to outsmart SpamCop? What is Nexus? Is that what causes "No Source IP address found?"

This does not affect the email system or servers directly. It will affect your spam reporting.



Scheduled Service Outage

The SpamCop.net Reporting Service is scheduled to be offline and unavailable for up to four (4)
hours beginning about 9:00 a.m. PDT on Thursday May 10, 2012. The reason for the outage
is to bring you a major update to the SpamCop.net Reporting Service, including the capability
for parsing and reporting IPv6 sourced spam and IPv6 address space. The new version will show
as SpamCop.net v4.7.0.019

The SpamCop.net website, including spamcop.net, www.spamcop.net, members.spamcop.net and
mailsc.spamcop.net will be down during the upgrade. Emailed spam submissions will continue to
be accepted but will not be processed during the downtime. Once the service is brought back
online you can expect a delay of several hours as the backlog of spam is processed.

The SpamCop mail service, newgroups and forums is not affected by this scheduled outage and
will continue to be available throughout the upgrade.