Re: Sex spam again on the list
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 22:08:17 +0200
Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@ftbfs.de> wrote:
[snip]
> A thing every user can do is to bounce spam delivered to the lists to
> reportspam@lists.debian.org. Best you use mutt's bounce-function or
> Kmails redirect function for that, so the headers don't get modified, so
> we can directly us that emails to train our filters to do better.
The Debian m-l page [0] contains only the following:
> Many of the rules we use to block spammers and their messages have been reported to us by subscribers. If you wish to help us reduce the amount of spam even more, your help is very much appreciated.
> To report spam properly, you need to do the following:
>
> * Find a copy of the message at the list archives.
> * Find a SpamAssassin rule or a procmail expression to catch this type of spam. Keep in mind that this rule will be applied against all lists, and that we want to keep the false positives to a minimum.
> * Send email to report-listspam@lists.debian.org with the exact URL of the message, and the said filter rule, if possible.
Why isn't Martin's suggestion mentioned?
> Martin, having his listmaster's hat on and being VERY tired, as the
> listmasters had a quite productive weekend with nearly up to no sleep at
> all.
Thanks, Martin, for all the work on our behalf!
[0] http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
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