-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 05:13:20PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Jamie White wrote: > > The correct unsubscribe procedue is [...] > > I am very sure that the protest raising people are _not_ subscribed > to debian-user@lists.debian.org . If they are real at all, then they > got spam with our list as fake sender or as fake receiver of replies.
That's my hunch, too. Either someone has managed to force-subscribe them to the list (how? they must somehow control their mail address, or they have found a gap in Debian's ML manager), or the senders are fake. But then... *what* are they doing? > I wonder about the motivation behind that recent spam annoyance. Me too :-/ > But the "leave me alone" mails mostly look as fake as those original > messages. (Can real people be that stupid ? Is this the proof for > brain damage caused by mobile phones ?) (1) they can. (2) perhaps. [...] > Maybe our list's spam filter could give such phrases a spam rating > sufficent to drop them if the sender is not subscribed ? By experience, such patterns don't persist for long enough to be worth the hassle of piling up yet another rule which quickly becomes obsolete. But if it persists... Strange. > Have a nice day :) Likewise :) - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAllg+fQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYMKgCeJ6tAymTc/QMK02W5CQX0DGKF NNoAniL9SXgfxlD5b5nlaNGsgMEaCMdm =E2c9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
