Reject or ignore spam?

[Craig L Russell]

Hi George,

From the http://apache.planetmirror.com.au/dev/committers.html:
I am a moderator and receive these "MODERATE" emails.





Craig

On Apr 23, 2006, at 8:43 PM, Garrett Rooney wrote:

First look in the mail and check if it is spam (or other severely misguided mail). If it is, then just ignore the mail and it will bounce after 5 days, or reply to the -reject address in the mail header. If you *should* ignore spam for the reason you give below, perhaps this section should be edited...

On 4/23/06, George Aroush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Brett and all,

OK, I believe I got it now (at least I tested it and it works.)

I had to reply to the subscription email and not send an email to the

the list I am still getting the "accept-"/"reject-" email.


to subscribe if they want to post.

"accept-" one -- this is to fix my problem of why when I send an email to For those other emails that I am getting with "accept-"/"reject-" I have been reply to them based on their content: spam I'm rejecting, others I'm accepting. From now on, I have to send an email to the sender and ask them

Actually, you generally just want to ignore spam.  After a few days
ezmlm will just remove it from the pending queue.  Rejecting it sends
a reply, which tells the spammer that it's a valid address.

-garrett

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