On 3/29/25 11:09 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 05:36:46 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
On 3/28/25 11:29 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 06:34:05 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
Since the beginning of February I've been receiving what I consider
spurious emails.
The only change to my setup {to best of my memory} was subscribing to
the "debian-...@lists.debian.org" mailing list.
On Fri 28 Mar 2025 at 08:00:59 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
Further investigation suggests a human *explicitly* sent all
"desirable" emails to debian-...@lists.debian.org .
I.E. When SeaMonkey displays header content onscreen, To: *OR* Cc:
contains "debian-...@lists.debian.org".
No "spurious" email has that in *EITHER* of those fields.
[I don't know enough about email mechanics to understand how the
"spurious" emails do get sent by some automatic mechanism.]
So would it be true to say that the only connection between these
"spurious" emails, aka spam,
*TILT*!!!!!!!
I don't believe them to be spam.
On 3/24 in response to having been asked:
What do you mean exactly by "spurious"?
I had replied:
That I did not associate them to be related to my needs/desires/expectations
[ When posting I was unsure if "spurious" was best term - thus the
quotation marks in my post.].
Please note my comment in the square brackets.
[SNIP]
You can't find the words to describe these emails, yet you won't
communicate any of their contents, header or body, as evidence
to the list. And yet you want the list members to tell you where
and how to report something that we know almost nothing about.
That makes no sense.
I asked you to check the headers of the emails, which you said
you can read in SM, and told you what you look for, and yet you
just snip that away. What's going on?
Cheers,
David.
I'm evidently have not conveyed the import of what I have termed
"spurious". It is *NOT* the same as saying something is spam.
I had run into some sort of problem with some web pages (don't recall
which). I went looking for a relevant list to give me background to be
able to describe the problem.
I found https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/ which says in part:
Web pages design and maintenance
Design, structure and translation of Debian web pages. ...
To see if it was what I was looking for, I subscribed.
At first it appeared to be a low volume but appropriate list.
Then there was a barrage of posts that seemed irrelevant.
Then a few posts of interest. Then more of no interest.
80% of the uninteresting post were placed by the bug-tracking system.
100% of posts explicitly done by humans seemed to have some potential on
topics of interest.
My problem is solved by filter I previously described.
