On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 22:08:17 +0200
Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> A thing every user can do is to bounce spam delivered to the lists to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best you use mutt's bounce-function or
> Kmails redirect function for that, so the headers don't get modified, so
> we can directly us that emails to train our filters to do better.

The Debian m-l page [0] contains only the following:

> Many of the rules we use to block spammers and their messages have been 
> reported to us by subscribers. If you wish to help us reduce the amount of 
> spam even more, your help is very much appreciated.
> To report spam properly, you need to do the following:
> 
>     * Find a copy of the message at the list archives.
>     * Find a SpamAssassin rule or a procmail expression to catch this type of 
> spam. Keep in mind that this rule will be applied against all lists, and that 
> we want to keep the false positives to a minimum.
>     * Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the exact URL of the message, and 
> the said filter rule, if possible.

Why isn't Martin's suggestion mentioned?

> Martin, having his listmaster's hat on and being VERY tired, as the
> listmasters had a quite productive weekend with nearly up to no sleep at
> all.

Thanks, Martin, for all the work on our behalf!

[0] http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/

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