Re: AOL's spam policy
Hi,
> same spam to them, please leave it to the Debian Team to take appropriate
> action. The mail you receive from the list mailer is useless for AOL, as
> they can't verify the origin of the spam, because the list mailer places a new
> header on the mail. And even if you would have the full header, you could
> easily verify that most spam mails aren't really from AOL, but from
I understand that, however, I get spam from these AOL spammers from both
the list and directly to me. As such, I will forward any spam from "AOL"
sent directly to me to the AOL abuse address, even though the headers may
be forged. I don't have the time to go through each and every spam header
I get. The "abuse" team at AOL is payed to do that, aren't they?
> You beat the wrong people in these cases.
Who are we supposed to beat then? :) It is unfortunate that headers are
so easy to forge. Hopefully some form of legislation will be passed that
will illegalize spam. Anyone know anything about this? I am curious to
know what actions if any are being taken.
> The only people who can take action are the people that have access to the
> debian list system, as they can verify the header on the original mail.
True, but it seems that every spam that is sent to the list is also sent
directly to the subscribed user, giving the user a double dose of spam;
not by any fault of Debian, however.
> You can notice them at abuse@debian.org (hope this is right. Get this from
> the top of my head).
Is this really necessary? Supposedly the debian list maintainers are
subscribed to their own lists. :)
-Ossama
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