On Sun, 2020-07-26 at 21:28 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
George N. White III wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 2020-07-26 at 19:57 +0000, ravi fieldengineer wrote:
[Snipped spam content, it's bad enough they got it on the list once. I also changed the subject. If that breaks anyone's threading -- you need a better mail client. :)]
Can someone stamp on this please?
The sender used a gmail address. It could be spoofed or stolen or just violating Google TOS. I forward such mails to abuse@gmail.com who have more resources to sort things out and can take the appropriate action.
That's certainly good to do. And much appreciated if you (and/or anyone else) have done that in this case.
For an account whose only post to the list is spam, I also take the approach of unsubscribing it. If it's a legitmate account, they can contact the list admins to tell us. [Yes, I could mark the account as moderated instead, but that puts needless burden on the list admins. If this were an account with has non-spam posts, that would be more appropriate.]
Also, I can't recall _ever_ being contacted in such an instance, so I'm fairly confident that unsubscribing these accounts is unlikely to be harming (m)any legitimate users. And that saves the other ~5600 members from getting more spam.
Agreed. Thanks Todd.
poc