Spam in this list
What is being done to stop the spam in the Gimp mailing lists? I recive about 3 to 4 new ones a day. Procmail strips them out so I can LART them but something needs to be done. Donn
Letter Spacing and a Spam sux!!
Hi The text tool offers the opportunity to change line spacing, but not letter spacing, it this in the works? I personally think this is a very basic function, is it so hard to program? And: C'mon, what's going on here, why all the spam? Will this change in the near future? Sorry, but I'm really annoyed... -- Mat
Re: SPAM :-(
Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote: Other than the advertising (which we know can be done away with), nobody has come up with any good objections. Propose to me how I can get the list information via egroups without downloading the ads. It may be possible, I don't know. I know I can strip it out once it gets here, but I bloody don't want to download it. There are those sitting on a t3/t1 from there plush company office, there are those who have dsl, BUT there are those still going 33k, as that's all their option is. email, in particular lists, with ads is a terrible precedent to be setting. -- Regards, Harshdeep Singh Jawanda. -- Until later: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein
Re: SPAM :-(
...but I bloody don't want to download it. There are those sitting on a t3... Even on a T3, I still don't want to download (well, accept) SPAM just on principle. BTW, I don't like egroups.com for a simpler reason than advertisments. I just prefer .org and .edu domains and think orginizations should shy away from commersial services.
Re: SPAM :-(
hi, I've got to say that annoying as spam is htting the delete button isn't that hard :) you obviously dont have to download around 500k of spam a day over a modem link ;-) at my work address, spam is just a 'd' key away. at home, my old and trusted account has been picked up by more spammers than "fran-spam the great spamming man of spam" (thanks to me using USENET I guess :-|) and its a consant fight. I guess when we in the UK finally get access to decent telecomms (eg 33Mb/s cable modem or *proper* ADSL (not the junk 'reduced ADSL' that BT are offering) then i wont be bothered. anyway, lets drop this...spam can cause more bandwidth from people complaining than the original message ever did ;-) alan
Re: SPAM :-(
Yeah, me too. That's the second or third spam I've gotten now. Still, it's not the lists fault... -Lea. Alan Buxey wrote: hi, sorry, but if I keep getting SPAM from this mailling list (the last supposedly coming from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - it only takes 2 seconds to look at the headers and see scam.xcf.berkeley.edu) then I'll have to remove myself from this mailing list :-( alan
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Lea Anthony wrote: I agree, this is better. Can we not get the s/w updated rather than miss out on the list altogether? What advantages does hosting this list at the present site have vis. a vis. hosting this mailing list at egroups.com? egroups.com offers all such facilities, plus all mails remain archived. -- Regards, Harshdeep Singh Jawanda.
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egroups bad idea. too many ads
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-09-27 at 2214.14 +0530): What advantages does hosting this list at the present site have vis. a vis. hosting this mailing list at egroups.com? egroups.com offers all such facilities, plus all mails remain archived. Advertisment? If we are gonna change to another place, I would ask help to GNU or SourceForge, they give lists to open source projects without ads. But I guess that the only thing needed is to change a setting in the current list config. And as with the website, the problem is to find the person that can do it. GSR
Re: SPAM :-(
Just FYI, the ads can be removed for 48.00 per year. I would hazzard to guess that many would gladly chip in a coupl ebucks for that. Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote: Lea Anthony wrote: I agree, this is better. Can we not get the s/w updated rather than miss out on the list altogether? What advantages does hosting this list at the present site have vis. a vis. hosting this mailing list at egroups.com? egroups.com offers all such facilities, plus all mails remain archived. -- Regards, Harshdeep Singh Jawanda. -- Steve Rogers, CCNA, Prince of Darkness Evil Overlord of 3D Network Engineer, Lightwave Animator since 1990 "Proud member of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals)"
Re: SPAM :-(
Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote: Lea Anthony wrote: I agree, this is better. Can we not get the s/w updated rather than miss out on the list altogether? What advantages does hosting this list at the present site have vis. a vis. hosting this mailing list at egroups.com? egroups.com offers all such facilities, plus all mails remain archived. egroups spams each message themselves, by appending crap at the bottom. At least that was my experience with the oracle list hosted there. egroups sucks, don't go that way. -- Regards, Harshdeep Singh Jawanda. -- Until later: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein
Re: SPAM :-(
I've got to say that annoying as spam is htting the delete button isn't that hard :) Tal On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:41:00 +0100 (BST), Alan Buxey said: hi, sorry, but if I keep getting SPAM from this mailling list (the last supposedly coming from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - it only takes 2 seconds to look at the headers and see scam.xcf.berkeley.edu) then I'll have to remove myself from this mailing list :-( alan -- -- | Tal Danzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux by Libranet| | Homepage: | The TOP Desktop Distribution | | http://www.muhri.net/~tal | http://www.libranet.com | -- A Friendly .sig!!! (TM)
SPAM :-(
hi, sorry, but if I keep getting SPAM from this mailling list (the last supposedly coming from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - it only takes 2 seconds to look at the headers and see scam.xcf.berkeley.edu) then I'll have to remove myself from this mailing list :-( alan
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hi, Yeah, me too. That's the second or third spam I've gotten now. Still, it's not the lists fault... other lists operate on a 'subscriber only' basis and check the from/to flags of posters. alan
More spam
Reply-To: Well is seems that whatever method got the gimp userlist on that previous spam, got it on another one. I would urge the list maintainers to restrict posting to the list from members only or otherwise alot of people will probably unsubscribe. here is the header from the latest message: Received: (qmail 31971 invoked by uid 27258); 20 Feb 2000 03:40:00 - Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 31964 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2000 03:39:59 - Received: from cask.force9.net (195.166.128.29) by scam.xcf.berkeley.edu with SMTP; 20 Feb 2000 03:39:59 - Received: (qmail 4884 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2000 00:19:34 - Received: from unknown (HELO bryntech) (212.159.69.203) by cask.force9.net with SMTP; 20 Feb 2000 00:19:34 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Your Free Gift!!! =/ sucks don't it? -- John E. Vincent http://www.lusis.org - opensource(libre) webhosting http://www.jyradelix.com - Jyradelix Designs http://www.lusis-integrations.com - Lusis Network Integration Consultants --- "Some people call me crazy but I prefer to think of myself as a freelance lunatic" - me
