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Re: Reporting list spam



In <[🔎] 20110220003313.GA5116@gennes.augarten>, David Jardine wrote:
>I recently bounced a foolish user's reply to a spam message to
>report-listspam@lists.debian.org, but then began to wonder whether
>I wasn't being just as foolish myself.
>
>Did my action achieve anything or just make matters worse?

Probably made things a little worse, but not much.  From what I understand, 
bounces mails to the report address just calls them out to the archive 
maintainers, and shouldn't adversely affect either foolish user unless the 
administrators make further mistakes.
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