Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 00:42:44 -0700 From: Garry Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Inappropriate behaviour by someone at eGroups Hi all - Warning: this is just a list-maintenance meta-message. No actual Libretto content here at all. Yesterday I received spam from eGroups asking if I would be interested in subscribing to the mailing list libretto@egroups. I deleted it, as I do for all spam. Today I received the following followup: Received: from c9.egroups.com (207.138.41.187) by ... Date: 10 Apr 2000 22:17:41 -0000 From: libretto Moderator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Welcome to the libretto group Hello, I've added you to my libretto group at eGroups, a free, easy-to-use email group service. As a member of this group, you may send messages to the entire group using just one email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eGroups also makes it easy to store photos and files, coordinate events, and more. Here's a description of the group: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Toshiba Libretto Forum --------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's my introductory message for you: [etc] I'm so pleased I have this corporation working to spread Libretto-knowledge. Actually, I'm rather pissed. It's rude to be subscribed without permission to someone's mailing list. But I'm also a little mystified. I notice that the eGroups Libretto list has 177 members / 1 message so far. The membership list includes all of us here. So apparently everyone has been re-subscribed wholesale to libretto@egroups. Messages, though, are not flowing yet - eGroups is not yet receiving a feed from basiclink.com. Possibly sometime soon we will each start receiving a duplicate of every message. Does anyone know what is going on? Is our list facing a hostile take-over? I'm especially wondering where they obtained the 177 addresses for each of us, plus the list-description. Dan, are we voluntarily moving the Libretto list ownership over? Did I miss an announcement? Thoughts would be appreciated, before I proceed with dreaming up anti-terrorist measures. (One might think we're at least getting an archive for free. Unfortunately, the eGroups archive works pretty poorly. One might also think they're doing no harm to the real list. But, the last list of mine they did this to, their frobulated software added significant work to (real) list owner's job.) We now return you to your regularly-scheduled program of errant video chips and sad owners thereof. Garry ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------UNSUBSCRIBE------- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe --------UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **************************************************************
