Re: Final Mailbox De-activation Warning?

[Ali Servet Donmez]

Thanks Bob! Much appreciated.

Ali


On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 18:25, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Ali,
>
> Ali Servet Donmez wrote:
> > We've received an email to one of our mailing lists: www-tr-comm (AT
> gnu.org),
> > however it has been held for moderation. I am not sure whether this is
> spam
> > or actually some maintenance is going on… Could please anyone step in and
> > let me know? Thanks.
>
> It's spam.  Which is more obvious to those of us looking at a lot of
> spam because we have seen the "mailbox deactivation" scam a godzillian
> times already.  It's a flood.
>
> Simply discard it.  Don't reject it.  It has a forged from address
> which in this case would open a ticket in sysadmin but otherwise would
> create a new "backscatter spam" to some innocent 3rd party who should
> then validly report gnu.org as a spam source.
>
> In the future the better place to ask these mailing list types of
> questions is the address@hidden address.  Since it is a mailing list
> thing.
>
> Bob
>