On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:36:28 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: >> Do you want to know who else uses Arachne? Spamcop is now using >> Arachne, version 1.70, rev 3, to notify you when they are ready to >> process one of the spams you have reported to them. I am sure that >> the folks who run the Spamcop servers also hate it whenever their >> machines get infected with viruses. They don't have to worry about >> that any more because now they are using Arachne.
>> Sam Heywood > So there is still hope for Arachne, if Spamcop finds it useful. > But how do you report a spam using Spamcop and Arachne? Is it via web form as > opposed to email? How would you paste the spam into the web form? Email > message is so much simpler when copy-and-paste is difficult or nonfeasible as > in a nongraphic environment. Does Arachne do better? Only other thing I can > think of is to save the web form, add a <base href=...> line if necessary, > insert the spam using a text editor, and load the modified form into a > browser. Spamcop reporting is easy to do with Arachne. Just address an email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", subject "Fwd: reply anyway". Then paste your spam into the body of the message, by doing F3, c:\arachne\mail\myspam.cnm. (substitute for "myspam" the actual cnm number of the spam message) Make sure you don't include a sig or a tagline, otherwise spamcop will think your sig or your tagline is part and parcel of the spam. Then send it. Several minutes later you should receive an email message from Spamcop acknowledging receipt of your spam and directing you to a URL. The email message will be sent to you by Arachne! At the URL you will read the rules and click on "I Agree" if you want to use their free service. Also you should click on an option asking them to send you a special spam reporting email address for you to use for submitting your spams to Spamcop. From then on you just send your spam reports to Spamcop by regular email and you address your reports to the special reporting address that they have given to you. When Spamcop is ready to process your spam they will send you an email message by Arachne and directing you to a URL. At the URL you will see the results of Spamcop's deductions determining from whose servers the spam really did originate from. Then you simply click on a link to have your spam report sent to the appropriate postmasters and other abuse handling authorities. You will not have to paste your spam onto a web form; however, there is a web form where you can add some comments such as your thoughts about what you would like to do to the spammer if you ever find out who he is. To help you think of such thoughts I could recommend your reading the collected works of the Marquis de Sade. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
