-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rynhardt Kruger wrote: > Can't we do something about all this spam on this list, looks like this list > is the local target.
1. Never quote spam mails within legitimate mails. It will spoil the list's spam filters, if legitimate text is mixed with 'spam text'. 2. Report spam. - From http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#maintenance > 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 having out of date filtering rules.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. HTH, Johannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklsoTsACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWjMwCdGGtENJBr1mvUTurBzqBshUNY xIEAnicHXPIRnN5LaDnDDWOJyGjdIimf =IUl4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
