I hate spam, and so I report it to places like spamcop so that they can put the spammers servers on blocklists. Can I do that with messages that are forwarded to me by spamgourmet?
A. Don’t do this unless you’re sure you know what you’re doing. Many well-meaning spamgourmet users report spam in a way that implicates the spamgourmet servers as the source of the spam! When this happens, it jeopardizes the entire service (because many users won’t receive their mail if the spamgourmet servers wind up on a blocklist). Also, it consumes a lot of our time trying to get the issues cleared up. This has actually (and ironically) turned into one of our biggest problems, and so we’ve added a clause to our terms of service that prohibits the reporting of forwarded messages in a way that implicates our servers as the source of spam (unless they really were the source, but it’ll be a cold day in…). If it looks like your reporting is jeopardizing our service, we won’t hesitate to disable your account — don’t take it personally.
