Why does SpamCop refuse to accept my HTML spam?
2/9/00 – SpamCop has begun requiring that spam containing HTML is submitted with the HTML codes intact (funny codes in the body of the message). This prevents erroneous complaints and allows SpamCop to find sites referenced within the HTML. Just because you don’t see pretty pictures and colorful text does not mean the email you are viewing does not use HTML coding. The HTML source is important for three reasons: • The HTML tags contain the email and web site addresses, which may not be contained in the plain text. If the spammer includes, for example, “click here!” in the email, then to be able to deal with that website, SpamCop needs the whole thing – just the words “click here!” are useless. • The abuse desk receiving the spam may want to match the spam with other copies of the spam, or with their logs. To do this, they need an accurate representation of the email that traveled through their system.
