Hi

G'day

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Unfortunately I don't know if we can set up anything that complex on the
list server, on the other hand adding a regexp to the list spam filter
is pretty simple. Is it 100% the best solution probably not, is it the
best we can do with the tooling we have probably.

Just out of curiosity, what is the regex?

Does it only check the subject line?

Sometimes, people may want to comment on the packages being updated as a whole (such as versioning etc), or they want to comment on the actual email itself (maybe a layout or formatting error, it is [somewhat?] system generated after all). It seems hitting reply may be the first thought regardless of the "please do not reply" in there. Can this be made a little more gentle (and accurate, it is not spam, it is a beach of policy)?

I have no idea of the capability of the list server, but instead of the message from the server saying this is spam, could it say something different for this particular matched regex?

Perhaps it could send it back with a message stating something like "To avoid confusion with release messages, please change the subject line and try again."

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