And for those of you who respond to those who respond to people who respond to spammers:
Please edit the original spam out of your messages. It confuses the spam blocking software. :) --b On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote: > Hi Hans, > Please never ever again respond to spam on list. I noticed this spam only > through your response. The actual spam has been filtered out by either > policyd-weight or crm114. > > Better yet: > > Never ever again respond to spam at all. Cause by doing so, you give the > spammer your mail address together with an indication that you actually > use it. > > If you want to do something constructive about it, you can do the > following: > > 1) Contact post/listmasters with some example spam mails including headers > and politely ask for adjusting spam filters. I think there is even a howto > on the debian pages. > > 2) Contact abuse center of the provider where the spam originates. > > 3) Get yourself spam filtering technology that makes it unviable for > spammers to send spam. Like policyd-weight and crm114 that I mentioned. If > everyone does it, then the business model of spammers would work out > anymore. > > I kept post to list for education. > > So please anyone here: Never ever reply to spam on list. > > Never ever. > > Please only respond on list if you absolutely have to. > > Thanks, > -- > Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de > GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201202232050.26949.mar...@lichtvoll.de > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cakmzw+z98ogfnbvhhkno9wl3cgtwpdrqdub-jljcfs-muqr...@mail.gmail.com