On Ma, 21 aug 12, 14:13:06, Bob Proulx wrote: > > The joe1assistly bad robot is one of the recipients. It then does > this: > > sender -> mailing list -> many recipients, including newsgroups > joe1assistly -> sender > > Mail from joe1assistly never hits the mailing list. There isn't > anything the mailing list can do to block the return spam. The only > thing that can be done is to find the recipient and unsubscribe them. > However there was discussion on one of the Cygwin lists that perhaps > due to the difficulty in locating a subscriber that perhaps > joe1assistly was scraping the messages from a newsgroup and was > therefore not subscribed. In which case it would be more difficult to > defeat. > > The joe1assistly bad robot has been coming and going for some months > now not just from the debian-user mailing list but also from some > others such as the Cygwin lists too. After studying the headers a bit more I wrote an e-mail to a specific support@ address (which I will not reproduce here) and I even got an answer :) Supposedly the autoresponder is turned off now. Please reply to this if you see more of those mails. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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