On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 16:33:38 -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > if you want to do everyone a favour, you bounce the original message > > > to <report-lists...@lists.debian.org> to help the list spam team train > > > their filters (I did). > > > This like sounds like good and important advice, but how do you "bounce > the > > original message"? > > By using the "bounce" feature of your MUA. Only good ones have it. > > > Does that mean forward the message to the report-listspam? > > No. Forwarding and bouncing are different operations. > > > Do you need to attach text to it to explain why it is spam? > > No. It'll be obvious. > > > (Is this something i can do from gmail?) > > Probably not. > > If you're a webmail user (that includes gmail, hotmail, yahoo! mail, > and so on), your best bet will be to delete the message from your > inbox, and hope that someone else reports it. > > If you really feel a strong need to report it, wait 15 minutes or so, > then go to the mailing list archive page,[1] and find the message there. > In the upper right corner of the message page, there's a button labeled > "Report as spam". Click that. > Thanks so much Greg for your detailed reply and explanation. (Thanks also Alain for your remarks on agents and bouncing.) So for now i'll just continue to refrain from responding to spam, and if i change mailing systems or gmail gets a bounce feature i'll try bouncing. dan > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ > >
