Hello, folks. I'm one of the Lynx-Dev list administrators. I'm writing this note to explain the recent junk e-mail that was posted to this mail list, plugging two yacht clubs. The Lynx-Dev mail list makes it relatively easy for people to sign up. It made it very easy for an abuser who used an address at "uniwebs.com" to join the list. Once they were added, they enjoyed the same posting rights as any other person who receives the list messages. We've removed the address from the list. At this time, we have not changed the list policy to require new readers to be approved. I'd like to think that "joining solely to spam" is aberrant behavior that won't be repeated. This may prove to be naive, since spammers care for nothing but getting their worthless garbage in front of as many people as possible, and don't care how many rules and taboos they have to break to do it. If you'd like to express your opinion on this abuse of the project's list, here's some contact info on the spammers and the organizations on whose behalf the messages were sent:
Ray Hallman, registrant of "hallmans.org" and "marylandyachtclubs.com" E-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] USPS address: Ray Hallman 10931 Battersea Lane Columbia, MD 21044 USA Phone: (410) 730-3003 The Maryland Yacht Club E-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (410) 255-4444 Uniwebs E-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] USPS address: John R. Hallman UniWebs Corporation 8630-M Guilford Road #111 Columbia , MD 21046 Phone: (301) 596-3003 Smart Servers (registrant of the IP space used by Uniwebs) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postal: 3670 Dutch Village Road Suite 52 Halifax, NS B3N 2Z5 CA Phone: (902) 457-3849 Uunet Canada (upstream network service provider to Smart Servers) Postal: UUNET Canada Inc. 20 Bay Street Suite 1910 Toronto, ON M5J 2N8 CA Phone: (888) 689-5565 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please don't curse, scream and yell at these people, no matter how much you feel that they deserve a good chewing out. Let them know that a public mail list has been intentionally abused on their behalf. Tell them that this is inappropriate, and not good public relations. I'd like to ask everyone's cooperation in keeping discussion of this off of the list as much as possible. I'll be happy to discuss this off-line with any interested parties. Remember what we're here for, folks... The browser, and those who use it. ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
