[Scspamcop] Re: Spam with spamcop ref

[Twayne]

> Twayne wrote:
>>  HI,
>>
>> Probably of no consequence; I mention it only in the event that it
>> means anything to anyone here at SC.
>>
>> The following tracker
>> http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z2413112474z3658d91fba5acecdc5dd6a5bcd3c7f39z
>>
>> has as its subject line "You have 11 unread message" in it.
>>
>> 1.  Normally I wouldn't pay any attention to it, but it's addressed
>> to one of my e-mail addresses that has NEVER received a spam in
>> nearly three years.  I also know the ONLY place I've used that
>> address for in the last two months; a place I wouldn't expect to be
>> involved with spam: Cherry keyboards at www.datacal.com, I think it
>> was.  I can't get to any sites where I can check rbl's right now but
>> I've never seen spam as a result of them before.  I used their link
>> to go to their Cherry programmable keyboard pages where I asked a
>> question and gave them that address to respond to.  I received a
>> response to my question late yesterday and the spam this am.
>>
>> 2.  The previous e-mail spam submission I just checked, WAS 11 spams,
>> and the return did have the ... "11 unread..." sentence in it.
>>
>> I'm going to use spamcop for the parse, but lart it manually so I can
>> remove that subject line, just in case it's a search method.  I like
>> to periodically pick one for special prejudice anyway; might's well
>> make it this one<g>.
>>
>> Like I said; FWIW,
>>
>> Twayne
>>
>>
>
>
> There is an old saying -- when you hear hoofbeats think horses not
> zebras (or some such similar thing -- someone will be along in a
> minute to correct me) ...
>
> I looked at the spam and there is nothing particularly unique or
> anything about it -- I have seen tons of that sort of subject line.
> And unless you changed the 'to" address before you submitted the spam
> to the parser I wouldn't be all that surprised about seeing spam to
> it. Just saying ....
>
>
>
> Ellen
> SpamCop

Thanks, Helen; first time I've seen that sort of subject line.  Like I 
said, it was just an FYI.