RobDickson Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 My ISP (PlusNet) offers a server-based virus checker, which intercepts viruses before they get to my PC. All e-mails that I receive have: "This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net" added to the end of them. This includes all spam e-mails. When I forward spam e-mails to SpamCop, the PlusNet footer remains intact (I use "Forward as attachment" in Outlook Express, so am unable to delete the footer). Will SpamCop start blocking PlusNet because of this?
Farelf Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 My ISP (PlusNet) offers a server-based virus checker, which intercepts viruses before they get to my PC. All e-mails that I receive have: "This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net" added to the end of them. This includes all spam e-mails. When I forward spam e-mails to SpamCop, the PlusNet footer remains intact (I use "Forward as attachment" in Outlook Express, so am unable to delete the footer). Will SpamCop start blocking PlusNet because of this? 34180[/snapback] Poor Dirty Harry got a bit of a beating when he asked a similar question in http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?...indpost&p=33746 To cut to the chase, if you have the option to select which reports are sent, uncheck any PlusNet reports. If you're a mole (no checkboxes), no reports are sent anyway. Being identified as "spamvertized" (say, by other reporters) is not going to get them into the SCBL anyway (IP addresses of originators only). IIUC it might get them into the SURBL (a different deal entirely, not SC as such - see Jeff G's http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5120) but there are simple remedies for that which you needn't be concerned about if you don't report 'em.
Jeff G. Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 No, SpamCop does not block URLs or URIs, but sc.surbl.org could based on your SpamCop Reports and those of your fellow PlusNet users if http://www.plus.net wasn't already marked as an Innocent Bystander (IB), in that attempted reports of that URL are met with "ISP does not wish to receive report regarding http://www.plus.net". Please see http://www.spamcop.net/sc?track=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plus.net, Once I close a spammer's account, how can I prevent others reporting it?, and the List Removal section of SURBL Lists for more info.
Jeff G. Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 You may also be interested in my proposed Glossary Entry Innocent Bystander Moderator edit: Note: hyperlink was edited to allow for inclusion in glossary.
Farelf Posted October 14, 2005 Posted October 14, 2005 You may also be interested in my proposed Glossary Entry ... 34189[/snapback] Gads Jeff, by the time yourself and Miss Betsy+ and Wazoo and dbiel and the others who went before (and no doubt, some few who shall follow) are done, the FAQs will be, as another reference was once described, "... the delight of the learned, the solace of the indolent, and the refuge of the uninformed. ... and, notwithstanding the objection sometimes opposed against it, of a quaint style, and too great an accumulation of authorities, the fascination of its wit, fancy, and sterling sense, have borne down all censures ..." (Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy) In sincere appreciation. +Who was before and is again.
RobDickson Posted October 14, 2005 Author Posted October 14, 2005 Thanks for all the posts guys, and thanks for being gentle with me!
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