does reporting spam to services like spamcop do any good?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 20 16:44:43 UTC 2006


On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 02:15:17PM -0500, bob wrote:
> Some of my email accounts are getting hammered by spam these days.    
> Filtering helps but there has to be a better way.
> 
> Do services like spamcop do any good?
> 
> http://www.spamcop.net/

I use procmail to dump certain mailing lists into folders, then run the
rest through bogofilter, which works very well for me (based on the
training data I have provided it with).  I have found spamassassin
nothing more than a complete waste of cpu time.

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