[[Resolved] Reporting defaults have changed]

...As long as your space-separated list of reporting addresses is less than 100 characters, you can have as many reporting addresses as you wish. <g>

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that's not many characters:

spam[at]uce.gov AskDOJ[at]usdoj.gov webcomplaints[at]ora.fda.gov enforcement[at]sec.gov

[FAQ Entry: The Link Analysis Process]

Hi AlphaCentauri, it's been a long time!  Do you have a tracking URL of a case where the parser doesn't pick up the geocities hosted site?  Many may be familiar with these, but I (for one) am not.

The email addresses, as used in 419 scams etc, were discussed in http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?...indpost&p=35473 maybe other threads as well.  Did you look at that one?

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Here's one from yesterday:

http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z884407155zab...5528d30bd61082z

Edit: 2006/02/24 14:49 EST -0500 Jeff G. replaced the posted spam email message (against the rules here) with a Cancelled Tracking URL.

[[Resolved] Reporting defaults have changed]

For example, my user-defined report recipients include not only the spam[at]uce.gov (where I send all spam), but also recipients who are only interested in specific types of spam such as webcomplaints[at]ora.fda.gov for prescription-related e-mails and spoof[at]ebay.com for Ebay Phishes.  I imagine many user's lists also include addresses for specific types of spam.

If a hurried SpamCop user reporting one spam after another forgets to check the boxes for user-defined recipients from an unchecked list, no harm is done.

Meanwhile, the paralel scenario of forgetting to UNCHECK user-defined recipients would result in Viagra e-mails going to the Nigerian Scam address,  university diploma ads being reported to software piracy folks, etc etc etc.  The checked defaults would result in less efficient reporting and less overall respect and attention for SpamCop reports.

How are you getting checkboxes to so many different reporting addresses? I can only fit four agencies' addresses in the box on the preferences page because of the limitation of characters. All my reports go to FTC and DOJ, then drug and pump and dump spams go to FDA and SEC respectively. I'd like to have more options.

Of course, if I could have more addresses to report to, it would be even more important to have the default be "unchecked" Unchecking a dozen boxes for every report would get old really fast.

[FAQ Entry: The Link Analysis Process]

I have been getting a lot of spam lately advertising sites hosted on geocities in various countries. For some reason spamcop's parser usually doesn't pick up on these. I've been reporting them manually, since Yahoo will address the problem and discontinue the sites when it gets a report, but it would be nice to be able to do it via one step with Spamcop. The extra 24 hours it might take for a report to be received is money in the bank for the spammer.

The other issue is when instead of a site being advertised, the email advises people to contact an email address. The parser doesn't find those, but again, geocities will terminate their accounts if they get the report.