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MSNBC: Tracking spam to the source. [via Tomalak's Realm] I get at least 25 spams a day in my personal account, advertising every business in the book. I don’t. I pay $30 for an annual subscription to SpamCop, for which I get a spam-free email address with POP, IMAP, webmail, and forwarding. Like Yahoo Mail with BulkMail filtering, except SpamCop’s filtering actually works, SpamCop doesn’t sell my personal information, and there are no ads while reading webmail.

Also, SpamCop has integrated features to reverse-engineer the spam in your “Held Mail” folder and safely (without giving away your own email address) report it to the proper authorities at the spammer’s ISP — even if the spammer forged their return address or went through someone else’s open SMTP relay. All my mail (even my old Yahoo mail accounts) forwards to SpamCop now, and I never have to think about spam unless I want to take a few seconds and help get some spammers kicked off their ISP.

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