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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:58:53 -0600 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=209.85.214.174; envelope-from=stefankangas@gmail.com; helo=mail-pl1-f174.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:199887 Archived-At: Severity: wishlist While digging around, I have happened upon lisp/mail/uce.el. Here is how it describes itself: ;; The code in this file provides a semi-automatic means of replying ;; to unsolicited commercial email (UCE) you might get. It sends an email to the sender, as well as the abuse and postmaster emails for the senders domain containing a fairly polite request to be taken off any lists. I think these days, it is pointless to reply to spam, and no one is (or should be) doing it. It only verifies to the spammers that your email is valid, which is useful information to them and will do nothing but ensure you stay on their list. This seems like a relic from a more gentle and perhaps naive time of the internet. Nowadays, people should not waste their time on doing that, but instead use a spam filter. IOW, I think this library is useless these days. So how about moving it to obsolete/?