EstherD

Recently I have been receiving many HUGE spams, comprising mostly random garbage, over 500 KB each. SpamCop takes 'em and truncates 'em to 50 KB. But it's unclear if I am being charged for the FULL 500 KB submitted, or just the 50 KB truncated version used to generate the report. Anyone know for certain which it is?

Hopefully I am NOT the one everyone seems to be waiting on to supply "the outcome of the intervening discussion"? If you are, then please be advised: Not going to happen. Because I was NOT advocating either for or against ANY particular "outcome". Simply reporting the facts as I see them, and nothing but the facts, so that: • Someone wouldn't get the clever idea that they could bypass the /dev/null assigned by the parser by plugging the unmunged reporting addr into the "user notice" field. • Some other one(s) wouldn't be surprised (as I was) when, after spending far too much time finding a suitable reporting addr, SpamCop promptly routed my "user notice" to /dev/null. IOW, I'm OK with the current outcomes. Just wish they had been documented somewhere. Would have saved me some consternation I didn't need.

There's a Catch 22 in the use of the "User Notification" that you should be aware of: If the recipient addr you specify in the "User Notification" field is one that SpamCop routinely sends to /dev/null, then SpamCop will NOT send a user report to said addr as requested, but will instead /dev/null your user report, just as it would with any parser-generated report for said addr. Three implications: • Taking a cleaned-up /dev/null addr from the parse and sticking it into the "User Notification" field will NOT cause a user report to be sent to that addr. Your user report will also get sent to /dev/null, just like the parser report. • The reporting addr you find through your own research, e.g. via whois, will NOT cause a user report to be sent IF SpamCop normally /dev/nulls the addr you specify. • You cannot know in advance if the user report addr you supply is clean or not. It only becomes clear after you hit submit and look at the submission results.