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On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 05:13:20PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jamie White wrote:
> > The correct unsubscribe procedue is [...]
> 
> I am very sure that the protest raising people are _not_ subscribed
> to debian-user@lists.debian.org . If they are real at all, then they
> got spam with our list as fake sender or as fake receiver of replies.

That's my hunch, too. Either someone has managed to force-subscribe
them to the list (how? they must somehow control their mail address,
or they have found a gap in Debian's ML manager), or the senders
are fake. But then... *what* are they doing?

> I wonder about the motivation behind that recent spam annoyance.

Me too :-/

> But the "leave me alone" mails mostly look as fake as those original
> messages. (Can real people be that stupid ? Is this the proof for
> brain damage caused by mobile phones ?)

(1) they can. (2) perhaps.

[...]

> Maybe our list's spam filter could give such phrases a spam rating
> sufficent to drop them if the sender is not subscribed ?

By experience, such patterns don't persist for long enough to be
worth the hassle of piling up yet another rule which quickly becomes
obsolete. But if it persists...

Strange.

> Have a nice day :)

Likewise :)

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stop your mail PM <ph.massiani@orange.fr> - 2017-07-08 09:10 +0200
  Re: stop your mail Jamie White <jatos.software@gmail.com> - 2017-07-08 17:00 +0200
    Re: stop your mail "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-07-08 17:20 +0200
      Re: stop your mail <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-07-08 17:30 +0200
      Re: stop your mail Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-08 18:00 +0200
        Re: stop your mail Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2017-07-08 19:00 +0200
        Re: stop your mail "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-07-08 19:50 +0200
          Re: stop your mail Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-07-08 20:00 +0200
            Re: stop your mail Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-07-09 09:40 +0200
              Re: stop your mail "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-07-09 11:50 +0200
                Re: stop your mail <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-07-09 12:10 +0200
                Re: stop your mail Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-09 12:10 +0200
              Re: stop your mail Ángel <debian-user@debian.16bits.net> - 2017-07-10 04:20 +0200
              Re: stop your mail Sébastien Gautrin <sebastien.gautrin@gmail.com> - 2017-07-10 17:20 +0200
                Re: stop your mail Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-07-11 00:20 +0200
                Re: stop your mail <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-07-11 09:50 +0200
                Re: stop your mail Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-11 13:50 +0200
                Re: stop your mail Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-07-11 14:20 +0200
                Re: stop your mail Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-11 17:20 +0200
                Re: stop your mail David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-07-11 20:30 +0200
                Re: stop your mail Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-11 21:00 +0200
                Re: stop your mail Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-07-11 21:20 +0200
                Re: stop your mail Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-07-11 21:20 +0200
                Re: stop your mail Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-11 22:10 +0200
                Re: stop your mail Latincom <latincom@vcn.bc.ca> - 2017-07-12 13:40 +0200
                Re: stop your mail Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-07-12 15:10 +0200

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