Re: Google Gmail mailing list bounces

[Skip Montanaro]

> Also I think Gmail users in general are a big part of the problem.
> Users subscribe to a mailing list and then later decide they do not
> want to be subscribed and instead of unsubscribing start to report
> mailing list mail as spam.

A couple things here. I help manage mail.python.org. We do (or at
least used to) see lots of messages which look like what you describe,
but coming from abuse@yahoo.com. I don't think laziness stops at the
gmail.com boundary. ;-)

Of perhaps more interest, when I report spam mail sent to a mailing
list to which I subscribe, Gmail will generally ask if I want to
unsubscribe to the list as well, or just report the message as spam.
If that's a general feature of how Gmail works and not just
this-feature-is-special-for-Skip, the laziness of the subscriber
wielding the mouse would be pretty astounding.

Skip Montanaro