How to report spam (was Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?)

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@cornell.edu>]

> Report spam instead.  Just hitting delete does nothing to solve the 
> problem.

Could you explain how you would do that?

Is it a lengthy process or just hitting a key or forwarding the spam 
email to another address?

How can I be sure that reporting spam indeed works?

Is there any authority who monitors this list?

thanks
raju