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Re: What to do about spam in debian-user [was: Your Password Reset Link from CorrLinks]



	Hi.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 08:43:47AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 21 February 2019 08:32:18 Reco wrote:
> 
> > 	Hi.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 08:21:00AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Thursday 21 February 2019 03:59:37 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:45:50AM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > > You can also help us by bouncing (as in mutt) spam to
> > > > > report-listspam@lists.debian.org
> > >
> > > This _might_ be a good idea, if that address took forwards. My
> > > incoming chain does not include the ability to do other than accept,
> > > then divert to /var/mail/virii or /dev/null. But my one attempt to
> > > forward to that address when debians poor spam/viri filters failed
> > > often enough to get my attention several years ago, resulted in its
> > > being bounced back to me
> >
> > There's a difference between 'Forward' and 'Bounce'. That e-mail is
> > for bounces.
> >
> > > Don't give me, or my current ISP a hard time because their spam
> > > filtering is far better ...  using barracuda
> >
> > LOL. Did you mean *this* Barracuda - [1]?
> > The thing's a best possible example of how you *do not* filter spam
> > *ever*.
> >
> Maybe, but it works.

You haven't read the link, haven't you?
You ISP's parody for spam filtering will kick you out the list.
Just because it's written in such way.

Reco


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