[wp-hackers] Replying to spam

[Jeremy Visser]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 9:31 PM, John Blackbourn
<johnbillion+wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a very quick note. Please do not reply to spam on the list. If
> you reply to spam on the list, it means people using Gmail (and
> possibly even other email systems with conversation threading) cannot
> mark the conversation as spam without also marking your reply as spam.

Why can't you use the drop-down arrow on the legit messages, select
Delete Message, then report the conversation as spam?