MS Outlook SPAM REPORTING Macro (Anti-Spam Tool)

Change Log:

9-17-2009 - Added Code Snippet from Alan Mercer that removes Signature

9-17-2009 - Added autodelete of SPAM feature. This sends the SPAM you selected to your deleted Items Folder.

9-17-2009 (3:43pm) - Tweaks added by Alan Mercer that closes the new e-mail window if "No" is selected at prompt.

9-24-2009 - added line 6, to send CC to additional Spam Reporting addresses. Modified line 15 to show the additional Spam reporting services.

I would like to thank Alan Mercer for providing the code snippet that removes the signature from the outgoing e-mail. Alan is a true watchguard hero!

SPAM is a Global Problem and yet anti-spam vendors would rather "go their own way" then to work togehter to create a common solution. After all, there is no money in actually solving the problem... So, because there is no centralized database that is common to all of the anti-spam platforms, each Vendor or Anti-Spam agency operates it's own propriatary system to block spam. Spam that is blocked VIA Service 1, will not be blocked by service 2, at least not right away.

This is good news for the spammers. What this means is that so longs as they keep flooding the internet with millions of spam, many people will still get them and worse yet, a small percentage of them will open and click on items in those e-mails. This makes it Profitable for the spammers to continue.

So, In order to hurt the spammers profit margin, we need to submit to as many anti-spam vendors and services as possible so as to help crush the spam as quickly as possible.

The more of us who do this and the more address that we report spam to, the better, as far as I am concerned. And if the commtouch or other vendors cannot handle the volume of Spam Reports that they receive, well that's just too bad, they can get over it and just make it work.

Please feel free to share this information with anyone you know who receives a significant number of spam. Heck.. Set it up for them and show them how to use it.