[SpamCop-List] Re: Spamcop not recognizing mailing list footer of netfilter-ha

[Mike Easter]

Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> Because it is a mailing list, it shouldn't be submitted to the
>> parser as spamcop reportable spam in the first place.
>
> Except by someone who is a responsible party for the list.

Yes.  I didn't cite that part of the rule.

> In practice it is difficult to avoid reporting mailing list messages;
> many lists do not add headers/footers/etc.; or insist on the list
> name appearing in the message headers.

Most people whitelist their subscribed mailing lists.  So, if you are a
'spam tagger', it - a mailing list item - isn't tagged or flagged as
spam.  If you /aren't/ a spam tagger, you have to spend a great deal of
time muddling thru' mixed mail poorly, so there will be a lot of
mistakes made and spam 'accidentally' opened and read and/or goodmail
lost.  Using human eyeballs on mixed spam and normal mail subjects and
froms is a very poor practice which should be avoided or aided by
careful and diligent usage of tools such as spam filters.

> If the list is run by one of your mailhosts (many of my subscriptions
> are..) you might have no way to know that the message came through the
> list on its way to your mailbox; fortunately, in that case in general
> the correct party would be LARTed.

I'm not clear on what you are describing about that problem.


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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin