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| Started by | Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> |
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| First post | 2023-12-25 11:30 +0100 |
| Last post | 2023-12-26 09:10 +0100 |
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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
| From | Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> |
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| Date | 2023-12-25 11:30 +0100 |
| Subject | Re: Dealing with SPAM. |
| Message-ID | <HOQnD-g0xa-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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.
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| From | "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> |
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| Date | 2023-12-25 11:50 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <HOQGZ-g0DJ-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #265242 |
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. > If you come across spam - ignore it in the mail that's come to you. Also check in the web mailing list archives at lists.debian.org if its come from a list and use the button to report as spam. If it gets removed from the publicly visible archives there, it's also then less likely to be harvested by spambots and used again. Andy
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| From | <tomas@tuxteam.de> |
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| Date | 2023-12-25 13:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <HOS65-g1GL-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #265242 |
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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 -- t
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| From | "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> |
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| Date | 2023-12-25 13:50 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <HOSz7-g1Qg-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #265245 |
Hi,
tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> [...] (it's actually a logistic function [1]).
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
> Looking forward to Yet Another Of Those Nerdy Monster Threads ;-)
Since it's happening periodically with about the same participants,
shouldn't we rather try to model it as hysteresis ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis
("Not to be confused with Hysteria.")
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
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| From | <tomas@tuxteam.de> |
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| Date | 2023-12-26 09:10 +0100 |
| Subject | Logistics vs hystereisis [was: Dealing with SPAM.] |
| Message-ID | <HPaFH-gcFG-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #265246 |
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On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 01:49:17PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > [...] (it's actually a logistic function [1]).
> > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
> > Looking forward to Yet Another Of Those Nerdy Monster Threads ;-)
>
> Since it's happening periodically with about the same participants,
> shouldn't we rather try to model it as hysteresis ?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis
> ("Not to be confused with Hysteria.")
You do have a point there :)
Cheers
--
t
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