I’ve heard a lot about SpamCop recently, and after reading this mefi thread I decided to sign up.
In short, it’s a free service aimed at stopping spam.
When you sign up, you are given a unique email address. Each time you receive spam you just forward the email as an attachment to SpamCop and they take it from there. I don’t know how effective they are, but at least it gives me the feeling that I’m helping to fight in the war against spam.
I signed up for that a while ago but wound up not sending anything off to them. When I was running my wedding site from snapmagic I was getting quite a bit from some add company. I should have sent that one in.
That’s the problem with listing your email address on a web site in plain text. I now use HTML entities to hide email addresses but it would be very simple for a bot to convert those into normal addresses.
To see what I mean about the HTML entities, look at the HTML source for the email address for the notification list.
i stubbled upon your website while looking for a certain quote about wisdom and irony. the weird thing is that Ironicaly i stubbled upon a wise person instead of the blasted quote, that i didn’t really need in the first place. i am glad to have read about you. you are absolutly intresting. if you feel the urged to jump up and e-mail me, for some alien reason, i would be pleased and rather happy with your reply.
From: (The girl with no hope of finishing her essay that is due in 3 days)
Annalise
SpamCop has been around for quite a while, actually, I don’t know why it took so long for it to capture more attention.
Is SpamCop still around? I can’t seem to load it, perhaps it’s DNS issues.
It’s still working for me.