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@xxxxxxxxx> > > 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@xxxxxxxxx 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 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
