how to deal with spam (was: Re: Petites annonces gratuites)

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Hi Hans,

Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012 schrieben Sie:
> michel_le_grand69@yahoo.fr wrote:
> > Bonjour,
> > . . . .
> > Meilleurs Salutations
> 
> !!!!!
> 
> D O  S T O P  Y O U R  I M P E R T I N E N T  M O L E S T A T I O N S
> 
> FROM WHATEVER ADDRESS YOU SAUCILY USE
> 
> !!!!!

Please never ever again respond to spam on list. I noticed this spam only 
through your response. The actual spam has been filtered out by either 
policyd-weight or crm114.

Better yet:

Never ever again respond to spam at all. Cause by doing so, you give the 
spammer your mail address together with an indication that you actually 
use it.

If you want to do something constructive about it, you can do the 
following:

1) Contact post/listmasters with some example spam mails including headers 
and politely ask for adjusting spam filters. I think there is even a howto 
on the debian pages.

2) Contact abuse center of the provider where the spam originates.

3) Get yourself spam filtering technology that makes it unviable for 
spammers to send spam. Like policyd-weight and crm114 that I mentioned. If 
everyone does it, then the business model of spammers would work out 
anymore.

I kept post to list for education.

So please anyone here: Never ever reply to spam on list.

Never ever.

Please only respond on list if you absolutely have to.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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