this isnt replying to the spammer this is replying to the server telling it to reject the message.
thanks to google this saved this address automatically this is what i am replying to discuss+reject-2521220c3d6c2f84 < [email protected]> which tells mlmmj to reject the email and not post it to the list. On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:05 PM, anne-ology <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a problem with replying to a spammer; in that way you're > merely acknowledging that the e-address is valid. > > To my way of thinking, that's a bad thing to do; isn't it better to > ignore & hope the spammer will give up. > > Also, these spammers tend to use slightly different e-addresses in > order to fool the system, so rejecting one will not reject the next ones > ;-( > > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Jonathan Aquilina > <[email protected]>wrote: > > Isn't that the same thing as emailing back saying reject? >> >> >> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi :) >> > I get the impression that if we do nothing then the message gets >> blocked. >> > So if you don't like a message or think it's spam then it's fine to >> leave >> > it. >> > >> > We are mainly trying to catch the ones that should not have been blocked >> > in order to unblock them. >> > Regard from >> > Tom :) >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > >> > > From: Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> >> > >To: [email protected] >> > >Sent: Thursday, 9 May 2013, 14:28 >> > >Subject: Re: [tdf-moderators] Fwd: Please moderate >> > [email protected]: Software Solutions for Small, Medium & >> > Large Businesses >> > > >> > > >> > >Hi Jonathan, >> > > >> > >Jonathan Aquilina wrote on 2013-05-09 15:20: >> > >> florian any chance you can black list this domain as this is the 3rd >> > email >> > >> today from the same company in the span of a few hrs to the mirrors >> > list i >> > >> have rejected them all but still its very annoying that they are >> still >> > >> pushing to spam the list. >> > > >> > >let's not block individual domains. Usually, one blocks the sending >> > >server's IP, not the sender domain. >> > > >> > >Plus, moderation is all about spam filtering. Manually maintaining >> > >filter lists is a tedious tasks I really would like to avoid, because >> > >you have to regularly verify those lists (who can assure that the IP >> has >> > >not changed the owner to a legitimate sender in the meantime?). >> > > >> > >We do extensive spam filtering already with greylisting, blacklists, >> > >SpamAssassin the the like. The spam that gets through is the tasks >> > >moderators have to deal with. >> > > >> > >Florian >> > > >> > -- Jonathan Aquilina -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/moderators/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
