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Submitted by mythsmith (registered user) on Tue, 2008-06-03 17:00.
Automating spamcop is a VERY BAD IDEA!
Infact spamcop is made to report also spamvertised websites. It is usual to find in spam emails some urls that are only "innocent bystanders" and has nothing to do with the spam itself.
By monkey-reporting with those script, you do not have the possibility to *see* who you are denouncing! You will end up kicking innocent websites.

I wrote something similar, in Python, but I added some dialogs to allow me choose which addresses to report to.
Where is the advantage!?
Well, TIME: the program will cache all the information locally, in background. Then you analyze your spam all at once without waiting for network operations (because the data is all retrieved locally).

It is not well optimized, but here it is: SpamCop Denouncer
I added also a statistical tool to estimate how many reports you send, their freshness, the top recipients, and how much time do your reporting activity cost.
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