This may or may not be related to this. But I got an email from the nyc cloud mailing list that said that a messages I sent (about w98 ) was being held and the I got a second email that contained a virus. I sent no message and I use linux so w98 is of no concern to me. Thus a message with a forged email may have been sent. Maybe this happened to you? -Kev
had this to say about "[nycwireless] Re: nycwireless digest, Vol 1 #681 -...": > I don't understand this list. > > Last year I found out that announcements of meetings of interest to NYC > Wireless members were off limits so I stopped sending them (another member > posted the announcement for the Eben Moglen talk on my behalf.) > > Based on what other people were posting I assumed that the following, > which I recently posted, was perfectly acceptable. (excuse me if I am > compounding the problem by reposting it) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > nycwireless digest, Vol 1 #681 - 5 msgs > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:29:42 -0800 (PST) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [nycwireless] orinoco silver antennas > > Does anybody know where one can get an antenna for an Orinoco silver card > for less than $89+tax (Datavision price, the only place I have been able > to find one). Alternatively, is there an alternative solution if ther > signal is just a tiny bit too weak? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > But apparently not. Someone on the list by the name of Nathaniel.E.Baker, > not only decided that this was spam, but contacted my ISP to have me > banned for being a spammer because of this message (the content of which > was not sent to the ISP.) > > Fortunately, I use a small wonderful, Free Software friendly ISP (Eskimo > North) and they know me and know that I would never send spam, so they > contacted me to tell me about the complaint and there were no bad > repercussions there. But since I run a GNU/Linux & Free Software > Beginners group (currently meeting at the IBM building the second > Wednesday of each month) with a mailing list of several hundreds of > people, if I have gotten on any spam lists anywhere unbeknownst to me due > to this message, it could be devastating for GNUbies. Especially now, > the next meeting is tomorrow and the mailing for this meeting went out > right AFTER the spam complaint was made. I have gotten messages bouncing > back that have never done so before. I just hope nothing else was done > that could have the effect of preventing people who want to attend from > recieving their announcements. > > If the message I sent is against any guidelines, please let me know what > they are. I would also like to request of anybody who thinks a message > constitutes spam when it has a valid non-forged From line and/or Return > address to please contact that person before trying to have them dumped > from their ISP and before taking any other similarly drastic actions. > > I am sorry for having to bring this up before the whole list, but I doubt > that I will ever post here again and wanted to put in the request that any > "alleged spammer" be told of the allegation first if inadvertently > violating policy before drastic measures are taken in the future. I don't > want this to happen to anybody else. > > I am sorry if my message in any way violated the policies of this list. > > > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
