> On Mar 17, 2026, at 6:29 PM, Grant Taylor via mailop <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Seeing Dan's comment made me ask something I've been wondering about.
>
> On 3/15/26 10:32 AM, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) via mailop wrote:
>> Reporting every one of them to spamcop which hopefully will cause these to
>> reach the correct abuse boxes.
>
> Is it still worth the time to report things to SpamCop?
>
> I'm starting to wonder if it is worth my time, especially since SpamCop is
> inserting interstitial delays when reporting via the web form.
"The time" is minor for me.
I use a perl script that I can just call from alpine that mass-reports on a
whole saved-mailbox, and I have "quick reporting" turned on, which means in
practice, reporting is as simple as (in mac mail)
Mesage-->forward-as-attachment, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>, ctrl-shift-d to send. Takes less
than five seconds.
Dayjob's RT install also has a "mark as spam" button that does the same (25
year old 3-letter long elders-of-the-internet domain somewhere in the top
couple-thousand globally. Our RT gets postmaster, hostmaster, abuse, mirrors,
and pretty much every other "standard" email you can think of. We've seen some
stuff.)
I've also known many of the folks at SC for...a while now. I admire their
mission.
> Doesn't SpamCop depend on crowd sourced data?
>
> It seems sort of disingenuous to punish people that are providing something
> to you and not really getting anything (of perceived value) back.
>
> Maybe I'm just getting burned out.
>
> But I find myself wondering why I'm continuing to spend double to triple
> digits of minutes a week, or sometimes even day, providing data to SpamCop.
>
> If SpamCop isn't worth it any more, is there anyone else that is worth it?
>
> I want to contribute to the email community. But I'm struggling to find the
> value as of late.
It's my understanding that other lists (not always advertised) are fed from
SC-related data. If I had another place *to* report things to, I would do so.
The greater problem is that from my POV, most of my spam that makes it though
my traps is b2b/seo BS that comes from two large providers, and those reports,
as far as I know, do nothing for those providers.
Things that I'm sure do nothing:
* Clicking the "this message is spam" in the various massmail opt-out programs
(mailchimp, etc).
* Directly emailing abuse@ the larger ISPs.
If there are other places I *should* be submitting to, I'd be happy to hear it.
-Dan
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