How do I change my Spamcop address?

My Spamcop address is overwhelmed with a deluge of spam.  I'm getting
thousands of spams for every legitimate email. My account is barely
usable.

I can't figure out how to change my Spamcop address. How can I do
this?

Thanks,

Russ wrote:
> My Spamcop address is overwhelmed with a deluge of spam.  I'm getting
> thousands of spams for every legitimate email. My account is barely
> usable.

You should be able to filter most of your spam.

> I can't figure out how to change my Spamcop address. How can I do
> this?

Here's where you contact SC for mail or service issues 
http://www.spamcop.net/ces/contact.shtml  Use this form to contact us 
about problems or service inquiries.




-- 
Mike Easter

"Russ" <nobody@example.com> wrote in message 
news:vbjor3tt0b1gh4mckccppuqg480kleiete@4ax.com...
> My Spamcop address is overwhelmed with a deluge of spam.  I'm getting
> thousands of spams for every legitimate email. My account is barely
> usable.
>
> I can't figure out how to change my Spamcop address. How can I do
> this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russ

I don't use the SC Mail service, so I can't help you,  but, I am curious 
whether you are taking advantage of all the Spam Assassin and  blocking 
options one apparently gets with SC. 

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:32:51 -0800, Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
wrote:

>Russ wrote:
>> My Spamcop address is overwhelmed with a deluge of spam.  I'm getting
>> thousands of spams for every legitimate email. My account is barely
>> usable.
>
>You should be able to filter most of your spam.
>
>> I can't figure out how to change my Spamcop address. How can I do
>> this?
>
>Here's where you contact SC for mail or service issues 
>http://www.spamcop.net/ces/contact.shtml  Use this form to contact us 
>about problems or service inquiries.


I'm not using webmail, just having all mail sent to my spamcop address
forwarded to another address. Most of the junk is held and I have to
wade through hundreds of held spams to insure something important
didn't get blocked. Some gets through past my spamfilter because the
spamcop address is whitelisted. I'd just like to kill off my current

Russ Ringer wrote:
> Mike Easter
>> Russ wrote:
>>> My Spamcop address is overwhelmed with a deluge of spam.

>> You should be able to filter most of your spam.
>>
>>> I can't figure out how to change my Spamcop address. How can I do
>>> this?
>>
>> Here's where you contact SC for mail or service issues

> I'm not using webmail, just having all mail sent to my spamcop address
> forwarded to another address.

Contacting SC doesn't 'require' that you are using webmail.  My sense of
mail or service issues is any kind of mail or service issue.

> Most of the junk is held and I have to
> wade through hundreds of held spams to insure something important
> didn't get blocked.

I don't know anything about SC mail, but I do know something about the
philosophy of mail filtering.

The ideal design of a spam filter should be that 0.0000% of goodmail
gets into the spam;  whereas some leakage of spam into goodmail is not
really much of a problem.

If any goodmail gets into the spam, then you have to do what I call
'dumpster dive' into the junk.  Dumpsters are great big trash containers
and dumpster divers are people who get into them to look for something
valuable among all kinds of terrible dirty stinky infectious dangerous
waste.

So, my point is that an email address should be properly
created/selected and protected in the first place so that it isn't
spambait.  Then, further, the spamfilter should be designed so that it
never ever has a false positive even at the cost of some false
negatives.

You should be able to (almost) discard your Junk mail sight unseen, and
the only reason for 'policing' it is to continue to be 100% sure that
the filter is 100% perfect in terms of never catching a goodmail.

> Some gets through past my spamfilter because the
> spamcop address is whitelisted. I'd just like to kill off my current
> spamcop email address and change it to something else.

I don't have any 'problem' with your getting rid of a 'bad' address that
somehow started or became damaged goods, but my point is that there is
something wrong with an address and a filter that is both getting a lot
of spam in the first place and having any false positives in the second
place.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin