Because Debian mailing lists accept messages from non-subscribers, and our spam filters have not yet achieved sentience, our mailing lists are not 100% spam free. But you can help us get better! http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ contains some hints how you can help us to improve the ham/Spam-ratio, you can also simply bounce (As in mutt) spams you get through our lists to: report-listspam@lists.debian.org Our filters currently stop about 50000 incoming mails per day, but there's always room for you to help us improve them.