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Re: Dealing with SPAM.

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On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 11:19:43AM +0100, Marco Moock wrote:
> Am 25.12.2023 um 08:56:41 Uhr schrieb Brad Rogers:
> 
> > On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 16:50:13 +1100
> > Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Zenaan,
> > 
> > >OMG money! I, being Debian User it  
> > 
> > The best thing to do is ignore SPAM.
> > 
> > If you *must* reply, don't quote the whole thing and send it to the
> > list *again*.  
> 
> Replying to spam will just tell the spammers that the mailbox is being
> read and that makes the address much more interesting for spam.

And replying to spam replies amplifies the phenomenon yet
more. The start is actually exponential, until things start
saturating (it's actually a logistic function [1]).

Looking forward to Yet Another Of Those Nerdy Monster Threads ;-)

Cheers

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
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Re: Dealing with SPAM. Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-25 11:30 +0100
  Re: Dealing with SPAM. "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-12-25 11:50 +0100
  Re: Dealing with SPAM. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-25 13:20 +0100
    Re: Dealing with SPAM. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-12-25 13:50 +0100
      Logistics vs hystereisis [was: Dealing with SPAM.] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-12-26 09:10 +0100

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