Sufficiently advanced Incompetence is indistinguishable from Malice. Aloha, Michael. -- Michael J Wise Microsoft Corporation| Spam Analysis "Your Spam Specimen Has Been Processed." Got the Junk Mail Reporting Tool ?
-----Original Message----- From: Philip Paeps [mailto:phi...@trouble.is] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 1:01 PM To: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Cc: Ryan Harris <r...@sendgrid.com>; mailop@mailop.org; Michael Wise <michael.w...@microsoft.com>; Laura Atkins <la...@wordtothewise.com> Subject: Re: [mailop] Do we need a new list for reporting spam? (Was Re: Admin: This is not a place to report Spam. ) On 2017-04-10 21:50:01 (+0200), valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:21:45 -0600, Ryan Harris via mailop said: >> It might be helpful to understand why people want to post on email >> forums rather than an abuse desk. Is it to gain public attention on >> the matter? Is there a bit of shaming going on and the reporter wants >> the community to know they are fed up with the ESP? Are people >> reporting on public forums b/c they want to know if others are >> experiencing the same problem? > > Posting the spam itself on forums is pretty much pointless. > > On the other hand, having a forum where you can ask "Are the guys who > are supposed to be dealing with ab...@robot-penguins.xyz merely > clueless or actively rogue?" or "Does anybody have a contact at > helium-filled-cows.com?" does have value.... I think this mailing list serves that purpose quite well. :) > Cue somebody saying "in 2017, being clueless *IS* actively rogue" in > 5..4..3 :) Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence? Is Hanlon's law (razor) the new Godwin? :) Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
