[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: More then 2800 spams from the list...



On Monday 19 March 2018 11:07:39 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:

> On 3/19/18, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:40:10AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Monday 19 March 2018 09:14:19 Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> >> > This does not belong on debian-user (and indeed posting it will
> >> > only make matters worse for you and us)
> >>
> >> Jonathon, why berate the poor user for what may your servers
> >> malperformance, which since I am subscribed and didn't get them,
> >> I'd put the blame on downstream, perhaps even in Michelles own
> >> ISP's server, and do it without telling her where the complaint
> >> should have been sent.
> >
> > No, Jonathan is right. Resending the spam to -user is not productive
> > (and perhaps exactly what the spammers want you to do: multiply by
> > 3000 at no cost to them). Michelle put
> > <debian-user-owner@lists.debian.org> already on the cc which *might*
> > be more relevant.
> >
> > You can try to do the best of it and have a go at the header
> > analysis: are they legit or spoof?
>
> Did anyone else receive more than the one very obviously spoofed
> Debian-User email over the weekend?
>
> Cindy :)

I got 2 copies of a msg posted by Tomas, but that was it.


-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>


Reply to: