Re: how to deal with spam
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:05:11 -0800
Don deJuan <donjuansjiz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/23/2012 11:50 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Hi Hans,
> >
> > Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012 schrieben Sie:
> >> michel_le_grand69@yahoo.fr wrote:
> >>> Bonjour,
> >>> . . . .
> >>> Meilleurs Salutations
> >>
> >> !!!!!
> >>
> >> D O S T O P Y O U R I M P E R T I N E N T M O L E S T A T I O
> >> N S
> >>
> >> FROM WHATEVER ADDRESS YOU SAUCILY USE
> >>
> >> !!!!!
> >
> > Please never ever again respond to spam on list. I noticed this
> > spam only through your response. The actual spam has been filtered
> > out by either policyd-weight or crm114.
> >
> > Better yet:
> >
> > Never ever again respond to spam at all. Cause by doing so, you
> > give the spammer your mail address together with an indication that
> > you actually use it.
> >
> > If you want to do something constructive about it, you can do the
> > following:
> >
> > 1) Contact post/listmasters with some example spam mails including
> > headers and politely ask for adjusting spam filters. I think there
> > is even a howto on the debian pages.
> >
> > 2) Contact abuse center of the provider where the spam originates.
> >
> > 3) Get yourself spam filtering technology that makes it unviable for
> > spammers to send spam. Like policyd-weight and crm114 that I
> > mentioned. If everyone does it, then the business model of spammers
> > would work out anymore.
> >
> > I kept post to list for education.
> >
> > So please anyone here: Never ever reply to spam on list.
> >
> > Never ever.
> >
> > Please only respond on list if you absolutely have to.
> >
> > Thanks,
> Debian list is a cesspool of spam. This email is only used for Debian
> and only been used for debians list and yet daily I get at least 10
> spam messages sent to the list. I think they should give a major
> overhaul to the spam filters, or even requiring re-registration would
> be good.
>
> This is the only list I have ever had such an issue
>
>
this was an easy one to deal with, created a filter to delete "yahoo.fr"
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Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown
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