is spamcop actualy worth it?
 

By reporting spam to spamcop does anything actualy get done or would it be a waste of time? I am sick of my PRIVATE email account from my isp getting hammered with 300 spams a day when I NEVER used that addy for anything except family and friends

How did the spammers get your email addy if you use it only for family and friends? Unless you have Wilt Chamberlain's definition of "friends" LOL

what's happening is that it is dictionary mailings against @rogers.com . Unfortunately the isp refuses to block it.

your going to send 300 emails a day to spamcop? thats a waste of time, use that time to make moneyyy

i agree. i'm sure one of the other million people they send it to will report it, let them waste their time. it would take less to just not read it or delete it.

I fuken hate Spamcop... Yay, let's just block the whole internet because we suspect their brother's friend's dog's previous owner's cousin has heard of spam.

spamcop:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

spamcop is gay and the users are fagget nerds http://www.geocities.com/anti_spammers2001

Spamcop is cool when I need to tract down all abuse e-mail addresses to send a manual abuse. But using its forms to send spam reports seems to be useless - most of providers do not take those generated reports seriously.

The only importang thing for spamcop is sending you an abuse mail. But never you will get any reaction if your response to this. Therefor I think it's just gay and if you will report 300 mails to them daily - I can forward the 1200 spams I will get every day, so you can probably fill out the other 10h per day with this work.

Just install a nice spam killer program, that will keep out 98% of all spam mails

spam killers just aren't cutting it. They end up deleting legit emails and allowing non text spam though. I give up. I'll just set filters to send them off to my isp and let them deal with it

spamcop is bad
go eat a sandwitch beside :Graucho

Use your spam filter, it works:glugglug

spamcop sucks

mail washer kicks ass


it doesn't get any better than that

First, don't expect much good feedback about anti-spam topics on GFY. About 70% of the webmasters here either send SPAM themselves, profit from it indirectly, or provide SPAM support services. They hate ALL blocklists because it kills SPAM before it gets to their intended victims, thus costing them money.

You bring up two seperate isssues , filetering and reporting.
I have found one filter,

Spampal
that effectively filters spam, and dumps it into a *Spam* folder. It does NOT DELETE anything. The reason it works more effectively than others is, it uses multiple filtering techniques. First it compares the the source of the email against multiple blocklists (including Spamcop, SBL, ORBS, etc) so that will catch quite a bit, then it uses a Regex Filter( keywords & pattern recognition) to catch even more. The other big feauture it offers is very easy blacklisting and whitelisting capabilities so it can be fine tuned. If you want optiminal results, you may have to tweak it bit , but it will be much more effective than anything your ISP provides. Or just give up like all the SPAMMERS here suggest, so all their crap makes it into your mailbox.

I will not go too much into reporting aspect of Spamcop. Reporting spammers gets them into the blocklist, so that mail will be filtered by ISPS and individuals which use that particular list.
If they are on an ethical host, that actually has and ENFORCES their antispam terms of service , the spammer is shut down and will have to move elsewhere which they tend to do pretty quickly.
In many cases, SPAMMERS and WEBHOSTS, team up so any complaints are essentially ignored. You will find that spammers host much of their stuff on Chinese or Brazilian hosts , or in the USA use places like CandidHosting or CaveCreek to host their Spamvertised sites.

Good luck.





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