Thus said Fossil SCM user's discussion on Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:58:01 -0600:

> > No, it is a huge PR problem.
>
> Huge?

Maybe not to some, but, it's certainly not something that we want coming
as a result of emails to the ML.

> I never correlated the posting to this list and the spam replies. I've
> got  so much  spam coming  in  from so  many sources  that there's  no
> telling where it all originated.

It's  easy for  me to  tell because  the email  address that  I use  for
posting to this mailing list is unique to this mailing list. So if I get
spam sent  to this address,  I know it came  as a result  of association
with this list. It may be  that it came through mailing list harvesting,
but when a  piece of spam comes  almost immediately after I  post to the
ML, it's pretty much certain there is a bot on the ML.

> Even one who  does manage to correlate the two  should not assume that
> the Fossil organization is the one sending such messages out.

They  shouldn't,  but   you  assume  that  all  people   have  the  same
understanding of ``how things work'' and I assure, this is not the case.

Andy
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