Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]
On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 10:58:54 +0900, John Crawley wrote:
> The Debian Wiki has these suggestions for how to deal with spam:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/ListArchiveSpam#nominate
The fourth option there says:
* Use your mail client's bounce/resend/redirect functionality to send
the spam messages to report-listspam@lists.debian.org
> So it looks as if resending a spam message to report-listspam@lists.debian.org is OK, although "bouncing" the message back to the server is very much not, even if your MUA can do that.
I'm pretty sure the wiki says it's OK. I cited it right up there.
To be clear, what we're talking about here is what mutt does when you
press the "b" key. It queues up a message for delivery, where the
envelope recipient address is one that you specify by typing it in,
and the entire message (header + body) is exactly what you received,
with no modifications made by the MUA.
Mutt calls this action "bounce", but I would not use the phrase "back
to the server" to describe it. It's more like a forwarding action,
because you're passing the message along to a new recipient.
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