Totally agreed I think what anne-ology was concerned we would be sending an email back to the spammer saying this is a valid email keep on spamming me.
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > All true > > However if something reaches this list it has already been rejected. We > just try to rescue the ones that were valid and sent here by mistake. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]> > *To:* anne-ology <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Tom Davies <[email protected]>; Florian Effenberger < > [email protected]>; "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, 9 May 2013, 15:08 > > *Subject:* Re: [tdf-moderators] Fwd: Please moderate > [email protected]: Software Solutions for Small, Medium & > Large Businesses > > 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 > > > -- 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
