Vladan Cvejic wrote: > Please, > > if someone could prevent this from happening - this is obviously spam with > porn commercials. And this is not the only one ... I am receiving similar > from other countries via debian-laptop, debian-firewall etc....Someone > should check mails
Please do NOT reply to spam messages to the Debian mailing lists. Please do NOT include copies of the spam back to the mailing list. Doing so makes the spam problem worse because now the list contains your message which trains the spam filters that the message is valid and the list archives cannot be cleaned. Because Debian's mailing lists process such a high volume of email it is possible that the occasional spam will pass through the excellent spam filters. This is unavoidable. The low quantity of these messages that are actually passed through is a testament to how much effort the mailing list maintainers put into making them useful to us the user community. In such cases that spam passes through the mailing list the best action to take is: * None. Do not reply to the spam message. Do not quote any of the spam message in any message sent to the mailing list. Doing so makes it impossible to clean the archives and trains the spam filters incorrectly on the message. * If you must comment upon a spam message then start a new thread by starting a new message and do not quote any part of it. * If you want to help then "bounce" (re-mail) the message to report-lists...@lists.debian.org verbatim. Reports of spam to that email address are used to train the mailing list spam filters. This will not work with Gmail or others that filter outbound email. See also http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#maintenance The Debian Listmasters do their best to stop as many such emails as possible from reaching the lists. On a typical day, over 40,000 such messages are blocked. Many of the rules we use to block spammers and their messages have been reported to us by subscribers. If you wish to help us reduce the amount of spam even more, your help is very much appreciated. To report spam properly, you need to do the following: * Find a copy of the message at the list archives. * Find a SpamAssassin rule or a procmail expression to catch this type of spam. Keep in mind that this rule will be applied against all lists, and that we want to keep the false positives to a minimum. * Send email to report-lists...@lists.debian.org with the exact URL of the message, and the said filter rule, if possible. You will get a reply when we act on your submission. Please bear in mind that we will only act on reported spam messages/patterns that have been sent in the last few hours, because there is no point in having out of date filtering rules. Also, please do not send any pre-packaged lists of rules you have found somewhere. They very rarely provide good results on our lists, because they receive some pretty unique traffic. Do not allow any emails that you receive from any Debian mailing lists to be sent to an automated spam reporting system. Doing so is often harmful to all users and will force us to block you from receiving traffic from all Debian lists until you prove that you will not do so again. See also http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/ListArchiveSpam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110119183040.ga23...@hysteria.proulx.com
