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Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]



On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 03:18:05PM -0000, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-06-24, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> >
> >> This like sounds like good and important advice, but how do you "bounce the
> >> original message"?
> >
> > By using the "bounce" feature of your MUA.  Only good ones have it.
> >
> >> Does that mean forward the message to the  report-listspam?
> >
> > No.  Forwarding and bouncing are different operations.
> 
> One problem for the casual user is that there's bouncing and then
> there's bouncing. For most us, bouncing means that the mail server
> rejects the email.

Yep. That's where the name comes from. It sends the mail back, with
as much intact info as possible to allow the mail admin to debug the
situation. Bouncing from the MUA does technically the same, so the
same name is appropriate.

> https://www.activecampaign.com/glossary/bounced-email
> 
> For those in the know like you, it means redirecting the email
> anonymously to another recipient.
> 
> I'm familiar with the latter as an Alpine user, BTW.

Cheers
-- 
t

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