Re: Spam complaints

[Noof <n@a0z.eu>]

On 17/05/12 09:51, Clive Standbridge wrote:
> To anyone who is bothered by spam on the list and is unsure what to do,
> please:
> 
> DON'T reply to the spam.
> 
> DON'T quote the spam.
> 
> DO Read how to report the spam at
> http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads in particular, find the
> offending message in the archive at
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/recent and press the "Report as
> spam" button.
> 
> DO visit http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/ListArchiveSpam for
> more information.
> 
> 

There was a dating website recently which put an advert on here.  I
heard someone returned the favour by automatic hammering of their
unsubscribe URL for two weeks, from two different cities, on two
different continents, for approximately 20 times per second each.

In total the estimate was about 50-million unsubscribe requests for that
one particular spam mail.  They had spammed the list a few times in a
short while and (perhaps unsurprisingly) they have not been back.

Or so I heard.