Although the Complainterator is already a great resource, there is always room for a little improvement. Allow me to present an enhancement request.

I try not to send the same removal request more than once in a day, so I always check my Sent Items if I've already sent a specific request today.

It would be great if Complainterator could check by itself (from the date in the stored text file in the Archive folder) if the current request has already been sent on the same calendar day.

Is that possible? Easy? Useful?

I would also love a little help from Complainterator with munging (to prevent bouncing).

I do two types of munging

1. worldiwins.com ↷ worldiwins~DOT~com : I obviously have to do that myself when I know that it goes to a "bouncer".
   
2. http://who.is/whois-net/ip-address/worldiwins.com/ ↷ http://who.is/whois-net/ip-address/worldiwins%2Ecom/ : that would be great if Complainterator could do that automatically (and always) for me.
   The same should also be done in the traversal link.

As far as munging goes.

In my experience with BILT-reporting I've found that the who.is and/or dnsstuff links don't need to be "munged".


The message should get through, simply by munging the "target" in the subject line, and then the domain name itself within the e-mail body.

Well....that is until SURBL (or their own personal filters.....lol) add http://who.is/ and/or http://*.dnsstuff.com/ to their filter


So in this case, for me I would use:

Subject: Removal request: worldiwins_com

And then in the body, where it would list worldiwins.com and/or the list of spam-related nameservers, under-score the dots and it should be good to go. No need to munge the domains within the dnsstuff or who.is urls - since the SURBL only "queries" _who.is_ and _dnsstuff.com_ I suppose?

Done

But yea, I know Complainterator was created as a simple set and go app, but "templates" would be neat too.

I.E.: For chinese registrars it could be auto-set to include the spamtrackers.hk links, and the new Chinese-translated castlecops wiki removal directions.

intention - to add the Chinese updated version to the .hk site

Lately, I've just been using that "signature file" and "scooting everything up" into the body of the report. Kinda as a reminder to not forget any pertinent evidence.

I would like to suggest that when Complainterator finds NS of Everydns, it not originate to Dotster, but rather add a :CC to the spamdomain (that was reported) of ABUSE@EVERYDNS.NET

This is presently problematic as WHOIS does, indeed, ID everydns and the end-user is lead to believe the spam NS is everydns.

TIA,

Everydns.net is not the registrar, so Complainterator would still address the report to Dotster. In this case, you would just not send the report, since it's not a spammer nameserver, and suspending it would impact innocent domains.

If someone is abusing everydns.net's service, it's appropriate to notify them, just as you would notify Geocities, Blogger, url shortening services, or ISPs for hijacked servers, but that would require a different software program to automate reporting.