Lisi wrote: > lina wrote: > > Chris wrote: > > > Anyone else getting this? > > I got one before. > > > From: "debian-user" <joe1assistly@gmail.com> > > Oh dear! Now someone else has quoted it. This isn't spam to the mailing list. This is spam from a subscriber to the original posters. So it doesn't matter if you quote it or not. It won't affect the mailing list spam filters. Although it may affect individual's spam filters. However anyone wanting to block the joe1assistly bad robot messages can do so more accurately using the message-id headers. Normal mailing list mail goes like this: sender -> mailing list -> many recipients, including newsgroups The joe1assistly bad robot is one of the recipients. It then does this: sender -> mailing list -> many recipients, including newsgroups joe1assistly -> sender Mail from joe1assistly never hits the mailing list. There isn't anything the mailing list can do to block the return spam. The only thing that can be done is to find the recipient and unsubscribe them. However there was discussion on one of the Cygwin lists that perhaps due to the difficulty in locating a subscriber that perhaps joe1assistly was scraping the messages from a newsgroup and was therefore not subscribed. In which case it would be more difficult to defeat. The joe1assistly bad robot has been coming and going for some months now not just from the debian-user mailing list but also from some others such as the Cygwin lists too. Bob
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