On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:13:33 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: >> Debian Listmaster Team wrote: >> > For more information see http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster/FAQ >> > ... >> >> Does anyone know what this is all about ? Never seen anything like >> this before. > > See the FAQ that was quoted for a full description. The most likely > reason is that your system is bouncing email that came through the > mailing list. That is most likely. Especially since there has been a > number of spam messages slip through the mailing list filters recently. > If your system has been bouncing those back to the list then it would > account for your kick-score being above threshold for a notice. The > notice is sent to you so that you will know that your system is doing > this. > > Normally mailing list software keeps track of user email bounces. A few > isn't a big deal. Misconfigurations happen. But too many and it will > need to unsubscribe you. Otherwise the lists would be clogged with > zillions of dead addresses. The mailing list management software must > clean those as needed. For example if you disappear from the world then > your email will bounce and after too many bounces the address will be > removed from the list. If it reappears again later you would need to > subscribe again. > > If you are handling your own email and spam filtering then the best > thing is not to spam filter and then bounce mailing list email. Okay to > spam filter and then either discard or file into a junk folder. But > bouncing messages that you have subscribed to is the main problem with > the above. > > And before anyone complains about spam through the mailing list let me > say that the Listmaster Team does an outstanding job of keeping spam off > of the mailing lists. The relative amount of spam is very, very low. > But with the high volume of email to be processed some small number in > absolute terms will slip by because people are so clever at abusing the > system. It is hard for even very clever good people to stop other very > clever people from being bad.
Bob, This is all sensible advice, but it does not sound to me as though OP is handling his own email; the address concerned is debianl...@videotron.ca - videotron.ca appears to be an ISP/email provider, and I have a hunch that the address is one of OP's own with that provider. -- 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/j48ntk$vqd$2...@dough.gmane.org
