Most recent edit on 2008-05-05 01:25:32 by WazoO [added Reporting Accounts page]
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~ SpamCop Reporting Accounts
Edited on 2007-10-05 21:58:39 by DbieL [Changed users to user's]
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~ One user's method to minimize the chance of reporting yourself while using Quick Reporting
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~ One users method to minimize the chance of reporting yourself while using Quick Reporting
Edited on 2007-10-04 21:07:49 by WazoO [spelling - change to chance in self-reporting sentence]
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~ One users method to minimize the change of reporting yourself while using Quick Reporting
Edited on 2007-08-18 19:43:16 by WazoO
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Quick Reporting
"Quick Reporting" is the mode of reporting in which ONLY the source of the spam email is reported to the determined spew source and the SCBL. Other things such as spam websites in the body of the spam email etc., are not reported. In fact, the body of the spam email will not be processed at all if you do "quick reporting".
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Quick Reporting
"Quick Reporting" is the mode of reporting in which ONLY the source of the spam email is reported to the SCBL. Other things such as spam websites in the body of the spam email etc., are not reported. In fact, the body of the spam email will not be processed at all if you do "quick reporting".
Edited on 2007-08-12 11:19:40 by FuhrmanatoR [Attempting to fix HTML page title by removing spaces in H1 (default title is "What is it?")]
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Edited on 2007-03-23 03:39:20 by DbieL
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For SpamCop Email Users: please note that the "Report as spam" command in WebMail is a form of "quick" reporting.
For the source of this statement,see Don's post in the SpamCop Forum http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=7733&view=findpost&p=52799∞
Edited on 2006-12-24 18:39:57 by KamarajU [minimized things regarding speculation.]
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Let's say your secret spamcop email address is submit.SECRETCODE@spam.spamcop.net . Then to quickly report your spam emails send them to quick.SECRETCODE@spam.spamcop.net . In other words, your quick reporting email address is obtained by simply replacing "submit" with "quick" in your secret spamcop address. Without enabling "quick reporting" feature if you submit spam to quick.SECRETCODE@spam.spamcop.net you will get an error message. If "quick reporting" is enabled, then you will receive a confirmation message which shows the details of SpamCop's parsing analysis...
Is there any limit on the number of spam emails reported through "Quick Reporting"?
Usually in "Quick Reporting", spam emails are forwarded as attachments. A maximum of 100 attached messages not exceeding 100 KB seems to be the limit. However those numbers are not affirmed by Spamcop officially. So this is all speculative. If you are experiencing problems, just lower the number of attachments (to say 20) in each email sent to quick.SECRETCODE@spam.spamcop.net .
The following forum posts are definitely worth the time reading:
Don D'Minion - SpamCop Admin - Reply regarding activating Quick Reporting∞ - Forum topic name: newbies question.., is there a easy way to report ..
Don copied and pasted the same reply in the following forum topic as well: Reports∞
Note: the above links point directly to Don's posts which are post# 22 and post# 5 respectively. You may find reading the entire threads interesting if you do not get wrapped up in the flamming and personality issues that are raised.
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Let's say your secret spamcop email address is submit.SECRETCODE@spam.spamcop.net . Then to quickly report your spam emails send them to quick.SECRETCODE@spam.spamcop.net . In other words, your quick reporting email address is obtained by simply replacing "submit" with "quick" in your secret spamcop address. Without enabling "quick reporting" feature if you submit spam to quick.SECRETCODE@spam.spamcop.net you will get an error message. If "quick reporting" is enabled, then you will be receiving a confirmation message which shows the details of SpamCop's parsing analysis...
Please keep in mind that there are limitations to the size of a message that can be sent for quick reporting. Anything that exceeds that limit appears to be truncated, but could also possibly cause the entire submission to fail. The file size limit is the same as for full reporting: 50KBytes per message.
If using forwarding as attachment (which is the recommended method to use) there is an additional limitation of 100 attached messages and a maximum combined file size of 100KBytes. Some have reported that the file size limits are significantly lower than stated, so you may want to confirm by checking your replies from Quick Reporting to see if all messages were processed or if some were ignored (truncated - ie never received/processed by SpamCop). Other factors affecting the limits are the software used to submit the files and the limits set by the SMTP server used to send the file.
The following forum post is definitely worth the time reading:
Don D'Minion - SpamCop Admin - Reply regarding activating Quick Reporting∞
Oldest known version of this page was edited on 2006-12-04 22:15:34 by DbieL [Added link to example data to minimize errors.]
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Quick Reporting
"Quick Reporting" is probably the quickest way to report
spam emails to SpamCop. This mode of reporting has some advantages and some other disadvantages. This article will try to explain the advantages and disadvantages of the "quick reporting" feature. The decision whether to use it or not is left to the SpamCop user.
What is it?
"Quick Reporting" is the mode of reporting in which ONLY the source of the
spam email is
reported to the
SCBL. Other things such as
spam websites in the body of the
spam email etc., are not reported. In fact, the body of the
spam email will not be processed at all if you do "quick reporting".
Advantages:
- "Quick Reporting" is well ... Quick! It is fast and relatively painless.
- Depending on the email client, multiple messages can be reported in a single shot.
- It is basically a one step process. There is neither any need to visit the SpamCop website to confirm the emails, nor is there any need to wait while SpamCop processes the spam emails. Once you submit all your spam emails, You are Done!
Disadvantages:
- Quick reporting is very limited in scope. It only looks at the headers of spam email and informs the owner of the IP address from which the spam email originated from. Nothing in the body of the email is looked at.
- Quick reporting can be very DANGEROUS. If everything is set up properly, and if it works correctly; it is great. However, if anything goes wrong, or if you are not careful, or if you do not know what you are doing; then you can literally blacklist your own ISP or other innocent ISPs. In the end, the careless use of "quick reporting" can cause many problems for the other users of the internet as well as for SpamCop. Due to these aspects of the "quick reporting" feature, it is currently disabled by default.
What to do before enabling the "Quick Reporting" feature?
- Configure MailHosts for your Reporting Account.
- Make sure that your ISP will not be blacklisted when you report spam to SpamCop. This should be checked, for example, by reporting spam to SpamCop using the web interface (Full Reporting) and verifying that the messages are being parsed correctly.
How to enable "Quick Reporting" feature?
The feature can be activated by sending a request to service@admin.spamcop.net asking them to enable it.
How to use "Quick Reporting" after it has been enabled?
Let's say your secret spamcop email address is submit.SECRETCODE@spam.spamcop.net . Then to quickly report your spam emails send them to quick.SECRETCODE@spam.spamcop.net . In other words, your quick reporting email address is obtained by simply replacing "submit" with "quick" in your secret spamcop address. Without enabling "quick reporting" feature if you submit spam to quick.SECRETCODE@spam.spamcop.net you will get an error message. If "quick reporting" is enabled, then you will be receiving a confirmation message which shows the details of SpamCop's
parsing analysis...
Please keep in mind that there are limitations to the size of a message that can be sent for quick reporting. Anything that exceeds that limit appears to be truncated, but could also possibly cause the entire submission to fail. The file size limit is the same as for full reporting: 50KBytes per message.
If using forwarding as attachment (which is the recommended method to use) there is an additional limitation of 100 attached messages and a maximum combined file size of 100KBytes.
Some have reported that the file size limits are significantly lower than stated, so you may want to confirm by checking your replies from Quick Reporting to see if all messages were processed or if some were ignored (truncated - ie never received/processed by SpamCop). Other factors affecting the limits are the software used to submit the files and the limits set by the SMTP server used to send the file.
As mentioned at the start of the article, using or not using "quick reporting" is entirely up to you. But if you decide to use it, make sure that you have read the disadvantages section of this article.
Other useful links
http://wiki.castlecops.com/SpamCop_Report_Considerations∞
The Forum version of the SpamCop FAQ entry
What is Quick Reporting?∞
The Forum version of
Quick reporting set up∞ An extended discussion base of the following question posted by a new user:
reading the posts, I'm just getting VERY confused as to how I can set up the quick reporting.
Also see:
The following forum post is definitely worth the time reading:
Don D'Minion - SpamCop Admin - Reply regarding activating Quick Reporting∞
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