Re: This is for your attention
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Rynhardt Kruger wrote:
> Can't we do something about all this spam on this list, looks like this list is the local target.
1. Never quote spam mails within legitimate mails. It will spoil the
list's spam filters, if legitimate text is mixed with 'spam text'.
2. Report spam.
- From http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#maintenance
> 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.
>
> You will get a reply when we act on your submission.
> Please bear in mind that we will only act on reported spam messages/patterns that have been sent in the last few hours, because there is no point in having out of date filtering rules.
> Also, please do not send any pre-packaged lists of rules you have found somewhere. They very rarely provide good results on our lists, because they receive some pretty unique traffic.
>
> Do not allow any emails that you receive from any Debian mailing lists to be sent to an automated spam reporting system. Doing so is often harmful to all users and will force us to block you from receiving traffic from all Debian lists until you prove that you will not do so again.
HTH,
Johannes
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