You should, at a minimum have your ISP defined in your donotsend list. And if you use more than one, put the other(s) in the donotsend list.

For example, I use affinity.com, and comcast.net.

So, my donotsend list looks like this:

AFFINITY.COM
COMCAST.NET

To add items to your 'do not send' list ....

Click 'Configure'

In the box next to the 'Add' button, type in one of the entries from this list, click 'Add', you should see the entry show up in the list.

Repeat until complete.

Would it thus make sense for these all to be included in the distributed files by default?

Any reason why I shouldn't (go into BBEdit and) change them all to lower case, too?

Actually I've had people at .EDU send out viruses/spam because their computers were infected...?

I agree. I have had a few replies from Universities that found students/people within spamming and thanked me for the report.

Also, by adding the .GOV, wouldn't that block sending the Cc. to the FTC address then?

Thanks, this is from an old version , I've modified it for the latest version...

I'm new to this and maybe this is a stupid question.

If I add my ISP to the "do not send" list, doesn't that mean that spam originating in that ISP doesn't get reported?

No, because not everyone has the same ISP. You only want your ISP in the list.

Anyone know the answer to this one?

Shawn,

Silly me! Thanks. Of course not. I was thinking, I suspect, though who knows, of an enlarged and distributed CC list???

If you do not add your ISP to the list, then because the mail went through their server, they will get a frivolous abuse complaint for every spam email you report. This is not the behavior you want.

However, it is true that any spam that really does come from the ISP will also not be reported by you. Do not think of that as a problem, though, because not everyone has the same ISP. Spammers send email to every address they can harvest, buy, or dream up. So that same email that SpamX must ignore for you will go out to other people who have other ISPs, and somebody with SpamX will report it.

If enough people use SpamX, it will all come out in the wash.

Charles, in previous versions of Sp@mX, your observation would be correct, but in versions 3.1.0 and above, the filter for Sp@mX is on high, and it will only send abuse complaints to Received line entries that trip one of it's spammy filters. So if you are using a clean ISP, the entry of your ISP into the donotsend list is optional.