# Just a reminder: Do not reply to spam threads **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 18, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-a-reminder-do-not-reply-to-spam-threads/76390 "2006-11-18T07:12:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hal_F)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-a-reminder-do-not-reply-to-spam-threads/76390/1 "2006-11-18T07:12:12Z")
Just a public service announcement… Hal ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hal_F)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 8:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-a-reminder-do-not-reply-to-spam-threads/76390/2 "2006-11-18T08:02:15Z")
Hal F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Just a public service announcement… Ooops, I disobeyed. m. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hal_F)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-a-reminder-do-not-reply-to-spam-threads/76390/3 "2006-11-18T17:06:52Z")
matt neuburg [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hal F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Just a public service announcement… > > Ooops, I disobeyed. Off to my killfile you go. lg, Bernd ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hal_F)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-a-reminder-do-not-reply-to-spam-threads/76390/4 "2006-11-19T04:06:00Z")
Bernd Haug wrote: > matt neuburg [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Hal F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > Just a public service announcement… > > > Ooops, I disobeyed. > > Off to my killfile you go. > > lg, Bernd Just a reminder … When you petulantly put a person in your killfile, don’t waste bandwidth telling him and us what you have done. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hal_F)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-a-reminder-do-not-reply-to-spam-threads/76390/5 "2006-11-18T23:53:37Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - Bernd Haug, 11/18/2006 05:05 PM: > matt neuburg [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Hal F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > Just a public service announcement… > > > Ooops, I disobeyed. > > Off to my killfile you go. That was a good one. Actually I didn’t mean to reply to the message but to point out that it does not matter if a message is SPAM or not as long as it qualifies as JUNK. It need not even be unsolicited. If a mailing list happens to fail unsubscription (I had that problem once) the best you can do is having all messages from that list qualified as JUNK. Jupp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFX45prhv7B2zGV08RAkmAAJ9yNQsuwHCf1UvW2FijEYlrhHFjqwCeIpQd Dn0BbXUZg0fFTJOjRrY/IPk= =xYRO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@Hal\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hal_F)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-a-reminder-do-not-reply-to-spam-threads/76390/6 "2006-11-20T17:06:59Z")
matt neuburg wrote: > Hal F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Just a public service announcement… > > Ooops, I disobeyed. > > m. I believe Hal’s (well taken) point is that replying to spam, as Josef Schugt just did in c.l.ruby and Brandon McCombs did (to the same post) in c.l.java, makes the spam harder for filters to detect. Ideally, Hal could reply to Josef with a “please don’t feed the trolls” post, but the reply would only make the original spam seem even more acceptable to the filters.