On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 14:13 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Lisi wrote: > > lina wrote: > > > Chris wrote: > > > > Anyone else getting this? > > > I got one before. > > > > From: "debian-user" <[email protected]> > > > > Oh dear! Now someone else has quoted it. > > This isn't spam to the mailing list. This is spam from a subscriber > to the original posters. So it doesn't matter if you quote it or > not. It won't affect the mailing list spam filters. Although it may > affect individual's spam filters. However anyone wanting to block the > joe1assistly bad robot messages can do so more accurately using the > message-id headers. > > Normal mailing list mail goes like this: > > sender -> mailing list -> many recipients, including newsgroups > > The joe1assistly bad robot is one of the recipients. It then does > this: > > sender -> mailing list -> many recipients, including newsgroups > joe1assistly -> sender > > Mail from joe1assistly never hits the mailing list. There isn't > anything the mailing list can do to block the return spam. The only > thing that can be done is to find the recipient and unsubscribe them. > However there was discussion on one of the Cygwin lists that perhaps > due to the difficulty in locating a subscriber that perhaps > joe1assistly was scraping the messages from a newsgroup and was > therefore not subscribed. In which case it would be more difficult to > defeat. > > The joe1assistly bad robot has been coming and going for some months > now not just from the debian-user mailing list but also from some > others such as the Cygwin lists too. > > Bob
Thank you for the explanation Bob. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1345616565.3957.1.camel@precise
