[Scspamcop] Re: spam coming from Yahoo!

[Mike Easter]

Gary wrote:

> I'm currently being bombarded by spam coming from Yahoo!, and have
> been reporting the spam to abuse at yahoo.com. But to no avail.

Please do not post spam or spam headers into discussion newsgroups^1.
Use a tracking URL.

> Should I report the spam to  SpamCop as well.

In this case, SC will notify the provider for the abused proxy, and
yahoo gets off scot-free.  Your manual (or additional notified if you
are a pay SC reporter) notify of yahoo could be useful unless yahoo
ignores you.

> I have posted the headers below.

No.  This is the tracker for your headers item:

http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z1770874654z9e0404ff9cb16187a9f93b2744392487z


How to make a tracker:

 1 select and obtain the complete spam
 2 privatize the header&body content
 3 webparse it & copy the tracking URL
 4 cancel the report & paste the tracker in here


1  ... in the manner described by the SC faq
http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/19.html  How do I get my email
program to reveal the full, unmodified email?

2 ... by modestly and unambiguously mungeing any private information you
don't want to expose, such as your name or email address which might
appear anywhere in the header or body.  Avoid excessive or confusing
mungeing.

3 login to the SC webparser, paste in the spam, and click Process Spam
button;  then copy the tracking URL from the top 'Here is your TRACKING
URL' of the appearance
http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z1505491930z5db2559eebcde98291b8e783c95d61cez

4 ... after parsing, the report is 'live' until the cancel button is
used.  After cancelling the tracker disappears;  the munged spam report
should be cancelled because it has been materially changed and because
you don't want to leave a tracker live.


^1 http://www.spamcop.net/help.shtml#nntp  Newsgroup Posting Rules - No
spam. Please do not post copies of spam or other commercials except in
the spamcop.spam group specifically designated for it. SpamCop provides
"tracking URL"s for posting spam samples. Please use them.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin