From h9vzc2i02 at sneakemail.com Mon Jan 2 11:31:46 2006 From: h9vzc2i02 at sneakemail.com (Anon_) Date: Mon Jan 2 14:30:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] change reply address Message-ID: How do I (free account) change my reporting address (the address that the parser replies to with the e-mail that I click on to have SC send the larts.) -- A SpamCop user and forum reader, Not Admin *** From post.please.this.email.is.not.valid at example.com Mon Jan 2 13:50:27 2006 From: post.please.this.email.is.not.valid at example.com (DougW) Date: Mon Jan 2 14:55:04 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: change reply address References: Message-ID: Anon_ did pass the time by typing: > How do I (free account) change my reporting address (the address that the > parser replies to with the e-mail that I click on to have SC send the > larts.) Log go to spamcop.net, login if you don't have cookies set to log you on, then select the Preferences tab, change email address or name. -- DougW Not a donut. From post.please.this.email.is.not.valid at example.com Mon Jan 2 13:51:29 2006 From: post.please.this.email.is.not.valid at example.com (DougW) Date: Mon Jan 2 14:55:06 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: change reply address References: Message-ID: DougW did pass the time by typing: > Anon_ did pass the time by typing: >> How do I (free account) change my reporting address (the address that the >> parser replies to with the e-mail that I click on to have SC send the >> larts.) > > Log go to spamcop.net, login if you don't have cookies set to log you on, > then select the Preferences tab, change email address or name. Quick call the lumber cartel. I found a lost Log. :/ -- DougW From MikeE at ster.invalid Mon Jan 2 12:55:54 2006 From: MikeE at ster.invalid (Mike Easter) Date: Mon Jan 2 16:00:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: change reply address References: Message-ID: DougW wrote: > Anon_ did pass the time by typing: >> How do I (free account) change my reporting address (the address >> that the parser replies to with the e-mail that I click on to have >> SC send the larts.) > > Log go to spamcop.net, login if you don't have cookies set to log you > on, then select the Preferences tab, change email address or name. And/But -- that doesn't change the login 'identity' or its address -- from the preferences section where the email address or name is changed - "Note: Although this will change the email address which SpamCop uses, it will NOT update your username (login). You will continue to log in with the username you signed up with originally." If you wanted to change that fundamental, you would just register again here http://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml That page used to say "This is a free SpamCop account. You may re-run this free authorization whenever you need to. If you do, any previous authorization information associated with your email address will be deleted." But it doesn't say that anymore, for some reason. -- Mike Easter kibitzer, not SC admin From nobody at devnull.spamcop.net Mon Jan 2 19:06:27 2006 From: nobody at devnull.spamcop.net (WazoO) Date: Mon Jan 2 20:10:05 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: change reply address References: Message-ID: "Mike Easter" wrote in message news:dpc40m$lbn$1@news.spamcop.net... > > And/But -- that doesn't change the login 'identity' or its address -- > from the preferences section where the email address or name is > changed - "Note: Although this will change the email address which > SpamCop uses, it will NOT update your username (login). You will > continue to log in with the username you signed up with originally." > > If you wanted to change that fundamental, you would just register again > here http://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml > > That page used to say "This is a free SpamCop account. You may re-run > this free authorization whenever you need to. If you do, any previous > authorization information associated with your email address will be > deleted." > > But it doesn't say that anymore, for some reason. Hmmm, you were party to the thread that addressed the "undocumented" change. due to Don's use of the X:No-Archive setting, his actual post does not exist in the SpamCop newsgroup archives (and has aged off the newsgroup server) ... I did a search on my own e-mail archives, as this was also one of those "can't put that FAQ into one of the versions I'm building, as the 'official' FAQ has problems" .. found my dialog with Don on this one, which gave me a date/timestamp, found the newsgroup thread, and see that part of Don's reply survived as a quote from the original poster ... http://news.spamcop.net/pipermail/spamcop-list/2005-October/105534.html Same data copied from my e-mail copy; -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Thanks ... http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1001 > > and http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?act=faq&article=2 > > updated .... will get back and clean them both up a bit eventually ... There are a few users left who signed up before passwords were being required for everybody, and who have been reporting spam all along by submitting it via email and using the links in the responses we send to report the spam, but they have never actually logged into their account here. They were given an 'access' link that looks like this: http://www.spamcop.net/?code=YourSecretCodeHere That link will no longer work, and since their email address has already been registered, they can't re-register it to get a password, and they can't use the 'denied' page to get one because their account has never actually been assigned a username. I can fix that for them if the want to send me their email address. - Don D'Minion - SpamCop Admin -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From h9vzc2i02 at sneakemail.com Mon Jan 2 17:53:22 2006 From: h9vzc2i02 at sneakemail.com (Anon_) Date: Mon Jan 2 20:55:04 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: change reply address References: Message-ID: "DougW" wrote in message news:dpc05s$iiu$1@news.spamcop.net... > Anon_ did pass the time by typing: > > How do I (free account) change my reporting address (the address that the > > parser replies to with the e-mail that I click on to have SC send the > > larts.) > > Log go to spamcop.net, login if you don't have cookies set to log you on, > then select the Preferences tab, change email address or name. *** >From what I remember, I cannot log into a FREE account - there is no username/password for a free account - how do I 'log-in' to change only the address? -- A SpamCop user and forum reader, Not Admin *** > > -- > DougW > Not a donut. > > > From post.please.this.email.is.not.valid at example.com Mon Jan 2 19:55:37 2006 From: post.please.this.email.is.not.valid at example.com (DougW) Date: Mon Jan 2 21:00:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: change reply address References: Message-ID: Anon_ did pass the time by typing: > "DougW" wrote ... >> Anon_ did pass the time by typing: >>> How do I (free account) change my reporting address (the address that the >>> parser replies to with the e-mail that I click on to have SC send the >>> larts.) >> >> Log go to spamcop.net, login if you don't have cookies set to log you on, >> then select the Preferences tab, change email address or name. > > *** > From what I remember, I cannot log into a FREE account - there is no > username/password for a free account - how do I 'log-in' to change only the > address? I use a free account, it has a user name and password. You could just click on the reporting link then while at the website finishing up the submit take a look at the top, the tabs should be there. -- DougW From nobody at spamcop.net Wed Jan 4 13:42:25 2006 From: nobody at spamcop.net (Ellen) Date: Wed Jan 4 13:45:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] mail and mailservers - 2 problems Message-ID: There are/were 2 different problems: 1) The email system mailservers handling @spamcop.net/@cesmail.net/@cqmail/net -- these were apparently down/non-responsive for a short time and have come back up 2) delays in submitted spams/receiving the SC mail with links/etc -- we are encountering some issues with the parsing system mailservers. We have engineering working on it. The servers are backlogged and are working thru the backlog which will take some time to process. I do not know how long it will take them to catch back up. We appreciate your patience. Ellen SpamCop From remaker at suespammers.org Sat Jan 7 08:41:25 2006 From: remaker at suespammers.org (Phillip Remaker) Date: Sat Jan 7 11:45:04 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Begging for a new feature! (Back-to-back reporting) Message-ID: Are new features ever being added to Spamcop? I report exclusively by sending email attached spam. Instead of going to the default "report spam page" which says: Unreported Spam Saved: Report Now I would ALWAYS like to go to the report spam page, with checkboxes, if there is quued spam. I never report spam by cut and paste. If I am reporting 100 spams, I'd like each spam submission to be followed by the next, rather than the intervining "REPORT NOW" page which is just another click. How can I report my spam, back-to-back when I have a queueu of spam? (Why do I report 100 spam? I report each unique spam captured in my local Exchange IMF-capture filter directory not blocked by the spamcop blacklist. I want to make the blacklist better) From post.please.this.email.is.not.valid at example.com Sat Jan 7 11:20:53 2006 From: post.please.this.email.is.not.valid at example.com (DougW) Date: Sat Jan 7 12:25:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Begging for a new feature! (Back-to-back reporting) References: Message-ID: Phillip Remaker did pass the time by typing: > Are new features ever being added to Spamcop? > > I report exclusively by sending email attached spam. > > Instead of going to the default "report spam page" which says: > > Unreported Spam Saved: Report Now > > I would ALWAYS like to go to the report spam page, with checkboxes, if there > is quued spam. I never report spam by cut and paste. > > If I am reporting 100 spams, I'd like each spam submission to be followed by > the next, rather than the intervining "REPORT NOW" page which is just > another click. How can I report my spam, back-to-back when I have a queueu > of spam? > > (Why do I report 100 spam? I report each unique spam captured in my local > Exchange IMF-capture filter directory not blocked by the spamcop blacklist. > I want to make the blacklist better) Welcome to the reason I use proxomitron. It's a handy app that can rewrite html on the fly. The filter is simple. For auto-redirect. URL Match: www.spamcop.net Search and Replace: (Saved:*href="/sc?id=) Replacement Text: Saved: REDIRECTING PLEASE WAIT wrote in message news:dq1fdn$net$1@news.spamcop.net... > SpamCop Admin did pass the time by typing: > > Just testing. > > ACK!! where is my paper! My calculator! My not... > > > Please disregard. > > Oh.. whew.. don't do that, i'm getting too old for this. > > At least this time I'm not in my underw*looks*, whew! > > :) If I disregard, will I be in my 'underw*looks*'? Miss Betsy From post.please.this.email.is.not.valid at example.com Mon Jan 16 16:29:22 2006 From: post.please.this.email.is.not.valid at example.com (DougW) Date: Mon Jan 16 17:35:02 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] interesting problem Message-ID: Seems spammy is starting to use botnets again to do the hosting. That means more than one IP per host. I've only seen SC parse the first host. For example: n273.net 083.226.102.124 c-7c66e253.350-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se 085.250.129.230 85-250-129-230.bb.netvision.net.il 012.202.086.220 12-202-86-220.client.insightBB.com 012.211.120.003 ?? 082.044.095.034 82-44-95-34.cable.ubr09.croy.blueyonder.co.uk dieforthoseeyes.com 012.219.075.059 12-219-75-59.client.mchsi.com 024.074.059.240 cpe-024-074-059-240.carolina.res.rr.com 068.059.102.169 pcp01023924pcs.panamc01.fl.comcast.net 069.211.230.163 adsl-69-211-230-163.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net 137.099.155.027 d155h27.resnet.uconn.edu nightsofyourlife.com 082.138.063.064 ?? 067.149.058.011 d149-67-11-58.try.wideopenwest.com 067.169.244.022 ?? 069.142.079.147 pcp0010900587pcs.walngs01.pa.comcast.net 066.041.220.125 c-66-41-220-125.hsd1.mn.comcast.net From nobody at devnull.spamcop.net Thu Jan 19 06:18:40 2006 From: nobody at devnull.spamcop.net (Mike) Date: Thu Jan 19 07:20:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Geocities Reporting Message-ID: I know that the parsing problem with geocities.com has been discussed, but has anyone noticed that when you run a geocities URL through the single line parser that you get the message that abuse@yahoo.com redirects to network-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc ? Note that there is not ".com" in this URL. So it's not surprising that the next line says that network-abuse@cc-yahoo-inc bounces. Can the ".com" be put back in the redirect target? -mike From MikeE at ster.invalid Thu Jan 19 06:15:47 2006 From: MikeE at ster.invalid (Mike Easter) Date: Thu Jan 19 09:20:02 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Geocities Reporting References: Message-ID: Mike wrote: > I know that the parsing problem with geocities.com has been > discussed, but has anyone noticed that when you run a geocities URL > through the single line parser that you get the message that > abuse@yahoo.com redirects to network-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc ? Note that > there is not ".com" in this URL. So it's not surprising that the > next line says that network-abuse@cc-yahoo-inc bounces. Can the > ".com" be put back in the redirect target? You would think so, but for some reason that I don't fathom, the deputy sez that yahoo has to do it. Beats me. -- Mike Easter kibitzer, not SC admin From kenbrody at spamcop.net Fri Jan 20 14:44:59 2006 From: kenbrody at spamcop.net (Kenneth Brody) Date: Fri Jan 20 14:50:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Geocities Reporting References: Message-ID: <43D13DBB.7643C069@spamcop.net> Mike Easter wrote: > > Mike wrote: > > I know that the parsing problem with geocities.com has been > > discussed, but has anyone noticed that when you run a geocities URL > > through the single line parser that you get the message that > > abuse@yahoo.com redirects to network-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc ? Note that > > there is not ".com" in this URL. So it's not surprising that the > > next line says that network-abuse@cc-yahoo-inc bounces. Can the > > ".com" be put back in the redirect target? > > You would think so, but for some reason that I don't fathom, the deputy > sez that yahoo has to do it. > > Beats me. Well, it now shows: Using best contacts abuse@yahoo.com abuse@yahoo.com redirects to network-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com My understanding is that the problem was that Yahoo had the wrong data in the abuse.net database, which is something that SpamCop does not control. Hence, the need for someone at Yahoo to fix it. (Short of modifying SpamCop's parser to special-case "cc.yahoo-inc" to fix it.) -- +-------------------------+--------------------+-----------------------------+ | Kenneth J. Brody | www.hvcomputer.com | | | kenbrody/at\spamcop.net | www.fptech.com | #include | +-------------------------+--------------------+-----------------------------+ Don't e-mail me at: From nobody at spamcop.net Fri Jan 20 16:41:02 2006 From: nobody at spamcop.net (Ellen) Date: Fri Jan 20 16:45:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Geocities Reporting References: <43D13DBB.7643C069@spamcop.net> Message-ID: "Kenneth Brody" wrote in message news:43D13DBB.7643C069@spamcop.net... > > Well, it now shows: > > Using best contacts abuse@yahoo.com > abuse@yahoo.com redirects to network-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com > > My understanding is that the problem was that Yahoo had the wrong data in > the abuse.net database, which is something that SpamCop does not control. > Hence, the need for someone at Yahoo to fix it. (Short of modifying > SpamCop's parser to special-case "cc.yahoo-inc" to fix it.) > twas a case of multiple fat-fingers my more than one person Ellen From nobody at devnull.spamcop.net Fri Jan 20 18:38:30 2006 From: nobody at devnull.spamcop.net (WazoO) Date: Fri Jan 20 19:40:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Spamcop missing a LOT of spam lately References: Message-ID: "Kevin Hurni" wrote in message news:MPG.1e3b3670b349e342989681@news.spamcop.net... > Usually maybe 1-5 pieces of spam slips through/day. > > However, the last week, I'm getting 20-40 pieces of spam that spamcop is > missing. > > And they're ALL very similar subject lines like: > Even after reporting these, I continue to get the same type of emails > (message bodies are all the same). Support for a SpamCop filtered e-mail account has been pointed to the Forum by the guy that hosts and runs it .. The spamcop.mail newsgroup does exist (you posted there a couple of days ago) ... but as noted, it's not a very lively group. Why you are pointing to Subject Lines and content when asking about the various SpamCop E-mail account filter selections available to you is lost on me. Specific questions on a specific spam might be answered if data was provided, preferably via a Tracking URL .... Setting follow-ups to spamcop.mail ... and having to note that at the time of this posting, the Forum is down ... JT's stated that it may be an hour or so before he can get on-site .... I can't log in, so it appears to more than just the database error showing on screen. From dra007 at aol.com Sat Jan 21 10:05:37 2006 From: dra007 at aol.com (dra007) Date: Sat Jan 21 10:10:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] forum help Message-ID: I am trying to log into the web forum and keep getting the following error IPB WARNING [2] mysql_connect(): Lost connection to MySQL server during query (Line: 120 of /ips_kernel/class_db_mysql.php) There appears to be an error with the database. You can try to refresh the page by clicking here. Error Returned mySQL error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query mySQL error code: Date: Saturday 21st of January 2006 08:57:04 AM can someone please tell me what this is and if it can be fixed? I use IE6 SP2. This is starting top feel worse than nicotine withdrawal... From nobody at devnull.spamcop.net Sat Jan 21 14:11:10 2006 From: nobody at devnull.spamcop.net (WazoO) Date: Sat Jan 21 15:15:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: forum help References: Message-ID: "dra007" wrote in message news:dqtikd$kb7$1@news.spamcop.net... > I am trying to log into the web forum and keep getting the following error > > IPB WARNING [2] mysql_connect(): Lost connection to MySQL server during > query (Line: 120 of /ips_kernel/class_db_mysql.php) > > can someone please tell me what this is and if it can be fixed? I use IE6 > SP2. This is starting top feel worse than nicotine withdrawal... Forum server had a bit of a crash somewhere after 0530 GMT-5 or so. Server was up, Apache was running, but the SQL tool was dead ... As it turns out, JT had made it on site and had apparently just got things running when I smacked the server with a 'reboot' command At any rate, it's back up at present. From respondu at nur.tra.sce Mon Jan 23 11:50:43 2006 From: respondu at nur.tra.sce (Monato) Date: Mon Jan 23 06:20:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Rejected by abuse@uic.edu Message-ID: Did I make a mistake, or is this some problem of the parser? The following message was rejected because it either included attachments or styled text. Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:51:16 +0100 To: abuse@uic.edu From: <1632352693@reports.spamcop.net> Subject: ***SPAM*** [SpamCop (128.248.224.75) id:1632352693]D a y T r a d e r w a t c h Please resend your message without any attachments and in plain text. From nobody at devnull.spamcop.net Mon Jan 23 07:05:37 2006 From: nobody at devnull.spamcop.net (Miss Betsy) Date: Mon Jan 23 07:05:04 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Rejected by abuse@uic.edu References: Message-ID: "Monato" wrote in message news:ESPR2FEBC88E@esperanto.be... > Did I make a mistake, or is this some problem of the parser? > > > > The following message was rejected because it either included > attachments or styled text. > > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:51:16 +0100 > To: abuse@uic.edu > From: <1632352693@reports.spamcop.net> > Subject: ***SPAM*** [SpamCop (128.248.224.75) id:1632352693]D a y > T r a d e r w a t c h > > Please resend your message without any attachments and in plain text. It looks to me that the spamcop report was rejected because it had an attachment. You could email them directly (in plain text) and tell them that they rejected a spamcop report. Explain why the report was sent and why it is a good idea to accept spamcop reports. You can suggest that they contact the deputies admin.spamcop.net if they have any questions about receiving spamcop reports (or look at the spamcop web page explanations). You can also include the spam you received as part of the email (if you know how to get the original headers) to show them what you were reporting. Miss Betsy an almost new internet user From MikeE at ster.invalid Mon Jan 23 04:34:13 2006 From: MikeE at ster.invalid (Mike Easter) Date: Mon Jan 23 07:35:02 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Rejected by abuse@uic.edu References: Message-ID: Miss Betsy wrote: > "Monato" >> Did I make a mistake, or is this some problem of the parser? I don't have it figured out yet, but I think the abuse desk made a mistake. >> The following message was rejected because it either included >> attachments or styled text. >> >> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:51:16 +0100 >> To: abuse@uic.edu >> From: <1632352693@reports.spamcop.net> >> Subject: ***SPAM*** [SpamCop (128.248.224.75) id:1632352693]D a >> y T r a d e r w a t c h >> >> Please resend your message without any attachments and in plain text. That is a spamcop report they are rejecting and alleging that it has attachment or styled text, but I think that is wrong. I've never received a spamcop report, but I think it is in plaintext and contains a link to the actual spam and doesn't have an attachment. > It looks to me that the spamcop report was rejected because it had > an attachment. Or styled [presumably html] text. > You could email them directly (in plain text) and tell them that > they rejected a spamcop report. Explain why the report was sent > and why it is a good idea to accept spamcop reports. You can > suggest that they contact the deputies admin.spamcop.net if > they have any questions about receiving spamcop reports (or look at > the spamcop web page explanations). I'm not very sympathetic to an abuse desk which is (presumably) incorrectly rejecting abuse reports. The typical reporter would be configured to not get any kind of 'auto-ack' so I'm guessing that this desk either acted like a sentient human or Montato is configured to receive the autoacks. It seems like this type of correspondence ought to be going on between the abuse desk and the spamcop deputy -- not the reporter -- and if the abuse desk doesn't want to receive spamcop reports they can work that out with the deputy. > You can also include the spam you received as part of the email (if > you know how to get the original headers) to show them what you > were reporting. That would be tantamount to a manual report, which is another subject. My attitude would be that the abuse desk needs to be figuring out how to interact with spamcop reports, and that that isn't my, the reporter's, responsibility to teach them. If I spent any time at all on the 'project' it wouldn't be very much. I'm thinking it wouldn't be any. -- Mike Easter kibitzer, not SC admin From nobody at spamcop.net Mon Jan 23 07:36:52 2006 From: nobody at spamcop.net (Ellen) Date: Mon Jan 23 07:50:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Rejected by abuse@uic.edu References: Message-ID: "Monato" wrote in message news:ESPR2FEBC88E@esperanto.be... > Did I make a mistake, or is this some problem of the parser? > > > > The following message was rejected because it either included > attachments or styled text. > > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:51:16 +0100 > To: abuse@uic.edu > From: <1632352693@reports.spamcop.net> > Subject: ***SPAM*** [SpamCop (128.248.224.75) id:1632352693]D a y > T r a d e r w a t c h > > Please resend your message without any attachments and in plain text. SpamCop does not send attachments. All reports are sent in txt format - no html, no "styled text" whatever that may be. I think their autoresponder is confused. Ellen SpamCop From respondu at nur.tra.sce Mon Jan 23 16:07:56 2006 From: respondu at nur.tra.sce (Monato) Date: Mon Jan 23 10:20:02 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Rejected by abuse@uic.edu In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ellen skribis je 2006-01-23 13:36: > SpamCop does not send attachments. All reports are sent in txt format - no > html, no "styled text" whatever that may be. I think their autoresponder is > confused. > > Ellen > SpamCop Thanks Ellen, that's what I thought. But before shouting at them, I wanted to make sure it wasn't my fault ;-) Paul From vanguard.news at yahooNIX.com Mon Jan 23 14:34:34 2006 From: vanguard.news at yahooNIX.com (Vanguard) Date: Mon Jan 23 15:35:02 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Rejected by abuse@uic.edu References: Message-ID: "Monato" wrote in message news:ESPR2FF0D53A@esperanto.be... > Ellen skribis je 2006-01-23 13:36: > >> SpamCop does not send attachments. All reports are sent in txt format - >> no >> html, no "styled text" whatever that may be. I think their autoresponder >> is >> confused. > > that's what I thought. But before shouting at them, I wanted to make sure > it wasn't my fault ;-) You could include yourself to get a copy of the spam report that gets sent to see what it looks like. -- __________________________________________________ Post replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. For e-mail: Remove "NIX" and add "#VN" to Subject. __________________________________________________ From h9vzc2i02 at sneakemail.com Mon Jan 23 14:31:06 2006 From: h9vzc2i02 at sneakemail.com (Anon_) Date: Mon Jan 23 17:30:04 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Rejected by abuse@uic.edu References: Message-ID: "Vanguard" wrote in message news:dr3ekr$5l6$1@news.spamcop.net... > "Monato" wrote in message > news:ESPR2FF0D53A@esperanto.be... > > Ellen skribis je 2006-01-23 13:36: > > > >> SpamCop does not send attachments. All reports are sent in txt format - > >> no > >> html, no "styled text" whatever that may be. I think their autoresponder > >> is > >> confused. > > > > that's what I thought. But before shouting at them, I wanted to make sure > > it wasn't my fault ;-) > > > You could include yourself to get a copy of the spam report that gets sent > to see what it looks like. > *** Actually, to see what the report looks like, when you get the parser's response to click on the urls to LART, just click on the link on that page that says see report (or scroll down to the reporting area and you will see the actual report that is sent. As stated in other posts, everything is inline - introduction, followed by the actual spam (with mungings shown) - no attachments are sent. -- A SpamCop user and forum reader, Not Admin *** > -- > __________________________________________________ > Post replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. > For e-mail: Remove "NIX" and add "#VN" to Subject. > __________________________________________________ > From notgiven at nodomain.net Thu Jan 26 00:22:11 2006 From: notgiven at nodomain.net (C. S.) Date: Thu Jan 26 00:25:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Logging out of SpamCop from Opera Message-ID: It seems to me that I used to be able to logout of the Spamcop system when using the Opera web browser, but I no longer find such an option. I don't believe it was exclusive to IE, and I'm loath to even try it(IE), since I abhor the IE engine and all it seems to stand for anymore: I truly refuse to use it unless absolutely forced to. Hmmm, let's see what I've got: WinXP SP1a (corporate), Opera v8.0 build 7561, JRE (Java Runtime Environment) 1.4.2_01-b06 Considering updates to: Opera 8.51 (or later if available), JRE v 1_5_0_05 i586 SP2 and above not necessary or wanted, Absolutely **NO** IE updates wanted or considered. I have absolutely *NO* troubles reporting with using SpamCop with the Opera browser; my account is a free-reporting one. It's almost a non-issue anyway, since I've got Opera set to clear all cookies and cache on exit... I just re-login each time I hit the site for parsing and reporting. Have I simply missed the changes shortly after the system went to everyone having to login, or is there something else I'm missing, or even ignoring? BTW, the CSS properties work exceptionally well with Opera... From bounce at bounce.com Thu Jan 26 18:08:33 2006 From: bounce at bounce.com (Don J. Reid) Date: Thu Jan 26 21:10:02 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] misguided e-mail Message-ID: Is this just a misguided e-mail, it's to info@ my company, don't know the person. Should I report it? Haven't had to report much for the last 6 months, switched over to a new provider with spamassign and it works great. http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z864707806z4ead588bfb80b4d07c0945387cd86b4ez From MikeE at ster.invalid Thu Jan 26 20:38:42 2006 From: MikeE at ster.invalid (Mike Easter) Date: Thu Jan 26 23:40:05 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: misguided e-mail References: Message-ID: Don J. Reid wrote: > Is this just a misguided e-mail, it's to info@ my company, don't know > the person. > > Should I report it? My advice about any unknown mail is to not start with 'reading' the mail or even pay much attention to the subject if you don't 'know' the From by familiarity. That is, it is an unknown and presumably unsolicited mail and likely spam until proven otherwise. So, the first place we look as at the headers for bogosity. The headers say that the item is sourced from aol and the From is an aol addy and it contains a vcard of an aol persona and the software is aol s/w. So, header bogosity isn't jumping out at us. The body content of the html item is a brief message about "You are invited to accept baldheadtroy's Address Card." and there is a vcard attached with the addies for the usernames baldheadtroy as an aol/er and/or troyb26 as a yahoo. In addition, there is an html function in the mail to click to accpet the vcard and that causes this: http://publish-subscr= ibe-npe.blue.aol.com/pns/action?xok=3D0&ot=3D1&loc=3Den%5Fus&oid=3D93175 8= 6&pfn=3D&pln=3D&ssn=3Dinfo%40jel%2Ecom&psn=3Dbaldheadtroy&action=3Dsub&s =3D= MC4CFQCcj%2BWZ8WC6axfjL%2Bk3wUZGOn2DRAIVAJEL2TerVrn7b1r7Hflc1o3G7O7L&_AO L= FORM=3Dh300.w300.p5 which is quoted printable and which might get destroyed by wrapping here, but which also translates to http://publish-subscribe-npe.blue.aol.com/pns/action?xok=0&ot=1&loc=en_us&oid=9317586&pfn=&pln=&ssn=x&psn=baldheadtroy&action=sub&s=mc4cfqccj+wz8wc6axfjl+k3wuzgon2draivajel2tervrn7b1r7hflc1o3g7o7l&_aolform=h300.w300.p5 where the 'x' in there at ssn= is info jel.com. The function of all of that is for you to be able to be notified if anything changes about our buddy baldheadtroy's addy or such, allegedly. So, if you don't know the yahoo troyb26 or the aol/er baldheadtroy, then this is some kind of 'trivial' unsolicited mail, not your average piece of spam. I would be annoyed by the html-ness of the 'publish-subscribe' content above, and that annoyance would cause me to report it as spam. The report will go to aol, and the source is an aol/er doing something. > Haven't had to report much for the last 6 months, switched over to a > new provider with spamassign and it works great. www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z864707806z4ead588bfb80b4d07c0945387cd86b4ez -- Mike Easter kibitzer, not SC admin From nobody at devnull.spamcop.net Sat Jan 28 21:39:12 2006 From: nobody at devnull.spamcop.net (WazoO) Date: Sat Jan 28 22:40:02 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] E-mail system down Message-ID: As posted at http://mail.spamcop.net/news.php; Jan 28, 2006 [21:42 EST] We are performing emergency disk maintenance on one of our main fileservers. During this period, many users will not be able to login. No mail will be lost during this time. It will probably be several hours from now before things are back to normal. From nobody at spamcop.net Sun Jan 29 11:26:09 2006 From: nobody at spamcop.net (RW) Date: Sun Jan 29 12:30:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Logging out of SpamCop from Opera In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: C. S. wrote: > It seems to me that I used to be able to logout > of the Spamcop system when using the Opera > web browser, but I no longer find such an option. It depends what server you are coming in on. www.spamcop.net is the only server which uses login/logout. You have to accept cookies to login on that server. HTTP basic auth is provided on members.spamcop and mailsc.spamcop. There is no logout option with http-auth. You have to completely close the browser session to expire the login. Richard From jeffg at spamcop.net Sun Jan 29 14:17:29 2006 From: jeffg at spamcop.net (Jeff G.) Date: Sun Jan 29 14:20:04 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: E-mail system down References: Message-ID: WazoO wrote: > As posted at http://mail.spamcop.net/news.php; > Jan 28, 2006 > [21:42 EST] We are performing emergency disk maintenance on one of > our main fileservers. During this period, many users will not be able > to login. No mail will be lost during this time. It will probably be > several hours from now before things are back to normal. New news has now been posted: a.. [13:01 EST] As of 6:00 a.m. EST, the system was back up and running. Everyone should be able to login now. All backlogged mail has been delivered. We apologize about the outage. At this point, the main fileservers have been rebuilt, so we don't anticipate any further problems. -- Best Regards, Jeff G. http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=37585 From notgiven at nodomain.net Mon Jan 30 15:43:17 2006 From: notgiven at nodomain.net (C. S.) Date: Mon Jan 30 15:45:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Logging out of SpamCop from Opera References: Message-ID: Thanks. I kinda figured it was as simple as that. Sometime around Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:26:09 -0600, RW deemed it necessary to offer: > > It seems to me that I used to be able to logout > > of the Spamcop system when using the Opera > > web browser, but I no longer find such an option. > > It depends what server you are coming in on. www.spamcop.net is the > only server which uses login/logout. You have to accept cookies to > login on that server. > > HTTP basic auth is provided on members.spamcop and mailsc.spamcop. > There is no logout option with http-auth. You have to completely close > the browser session to expire the login. > > Richard From kenbrody at spamcop.net Tue Jan 31 11:16:16 2006 From: kenbrody at spamcop.net (Kenneth Brody) Date: Tue Jan 31 11:20:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Logging out of SpamCop from Opera References: Message-ID: <43DF8D50.9EC7984B@spamcop.net> RW wrote: [...] > HTTP basic auth is provided on members.spamcop and mailsc.spamcop. > There is no logout option with http-auth. You have to completely close > the browser session to expire the login. I've always wondered why they didn't design a logout option to http-auth. I came up with a simple(?) kludge that might work, with the help of the http server. What if you were to pass a flag (or a special URL) in the http request that told the http server to fail the http-auth automatically? Wouldn't that cause the browser to throw out the existing login information and attempt logging in again? For example could tell the http server to fail any http-auth that is included. -- +-------------------------+--------------------+-----------------------------+ | Kenneth J. Brody | www.hvcomputer.com | | | kenbrody/at\spamcop.net | www.fptech.com | #include | +-------------------------+--------------------+-----------------------------+ Don't e-mail me at: From Unknown.User at Invalid.Domain Tue Jan 31 14:43:06 2006 From: Unknown.User at Invalid.Domain (Jan M. Nelken) Date: Tue Jan 31 14:45:03 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] What it is? Message-ID: I am getting series of Penny stock spam into my Lotus Notes in-basket. It appears that payload is an attached gif which Lotus Notes is "auto-opening" - but this "auto-open" only happens on this kind of spam. In one part I found this term: SRC="cid:OK64699DVVC@texas.net". What does it mean? Jan M. Nelken From kenbrody at spamcop.net Tue Jan 31 14:46:48 2006 From: kenbrody at spamcop.net (Kenneth Brody) Date: Tue Jan 31 14:50:04 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: What it is? References: Message-ID: <43DFBEA8.7FB084C3@spamcop.net> "Jan M. Nelken" wrote: > > I am getting series of Penny stock spam into my Lotus Notes in-basket. It > appears that payload is an attached gif which Lotus Notes is "auto-opening" - > but this "auto-open" only happens on this kind of spam. > > In one part I found this term: SRC="cid:OK64699DVVC@texas.net". What does > it mean? That is probably part of an tag, and it means that the image is an attachment to the e-mail. The "cid:" part identifies the attachment based on the identifier that follows. I believe that one of the attacments will have something like "Content-ID:" within it which matches the ID. While Lotus may "auto-open" it, you can at least be assured that it is grabbing the image from the e-mail itself, rather than using a "web bug" off the 'net, which may uniquely identify you to the spammer. -- +-------------------------+--------------------+-----------------------------+ | Kenneth J. Brody | www.hvcomputer.com | | | kenbrody/at\spamcop.net | www.fptech.com | #include | +-------------------------+--------------------+-----------------------------+ Don't e-mail me at: From h9vzc2i02 at sneakemail.com Tue Jan 31 16:59:15 2006 From: h9vzc2i02 at sneakemail.com (Anon_) Date: Tue Jan 31 20:00:05 2006 Subject: [SC-Help] Re: What it is? References: <43DFBEA8.7FB084C3@spamcop.net> Message-ID: "Kenneth Brody" wrote in message news:43DFBEA8.7FB084C3@spamcop.net... > "Jan M. Nelken" wrote: > > > > I am getting series of Penny stock spam into my Lotus Notes in-basket. It > > appears that payload is an attached gif which Lotus Notes is "auto-opening" - > > but this "auto-open" only happens on this kind of spam. ** Under any circumstances, it is NOT a good idea yom "auto-open" ANYTHING - it could be a virus and you are "automatically" infected therefrom. -- A SpamCop user and forum reader, Not Admin ***