Re: [tdf-moderators] Fwd: Please moderate mirrors -AT- documentfoundation.org: Software Solutions for Small, Medium & Large Businesses

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 <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> 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 <eagles051387@gmail.com>
> *To:* anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>; Florian Effenberger <
> floeff@documentfoundation.org>; "moderators@documentfoundation.org" <
> moderators@documentfoundation.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 9 May 2013, 15:08
>
> *Subject:* Re: [tdf-moderators] Fwd: Please moderate
> mirrors@documentfoundation.org: 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 <
> discuss+reject-2521220c3d6c2f84@documentfoundation.org> 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 <laginnis@gmail.com> 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 <
> eagles051387@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Isn't that the same thing as emailing back saying reject?
> > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
> > > 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 <floeff@documentfoundation.org>
> > > > > To: moderators@documentfoundation.org
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, 9 May 2013, 14:28
> > > > > Subject: Re: [tdf-moderators] Fwd: Please moderate
> > > > mirrors@documentfoundation.org: 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
>
>
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> Jonathan Aquilina
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