Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-19 Thread Dave Holland
I wasn't going to contribute again to this off-topic discussion, but I have some news which might be welcome. The mail-archive.com administrator has recently said: | Finally, the more stringent address obfuscation suggest | (i.e. clobbering the domain completely in message bodies) | is

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-16 Thread Henrik Norbeck
John Chambers wrote: China. Some people have said that they like to send back messages to the postmaster thanking him for his support for Falun Gong. This seems to get people off lists really fast ... So, can we send back spam messages from the US the same way to the postmaster,

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-16 Thread John Chambers
Henrik Norbeck writes: | John Chambers wrote: | China. Some people have said that they like to send back messages to | the postmaster thanking him for his support for Falun Gong. This | seems to get people off lists really fast ... | | So, can we send back spam messages from the US the

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-16 Thread Phil Taylor
John Chambers wrote: I wonder if it would be better to send such messages in Swedish or in English? Arabic? Pushtun? Urdu? Farsi? Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-16 Thread Jack Campin
They're probably subscribed to the abcusers list. Since you are a list subscriber, you can send majordomo a who command, and go through the entire list of abcuser subscribers, find any email addresses that look suspect. Then you can send them an email demanding to know if they are the

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Dave Holland
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:29:43AM +0100, Dave Holland wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#spam does say that email addresses will be obfuscated when they are present in the archive, but as Jack noted, it's not always done. I will report that. It appears that the web pages are

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Toby Rider
John Chambers wrote: (Perhaps we could also solve the problem by sending form letters to spammers pointing out that we are musicians, so most of us probably don't have enough money to be worth their attention. ;-) Sigh.. I'm so used to spam. You can imagine how much spam I

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread John Chambers
Toby writes: | John Chambers wrote: | | (Perhaps we could also solve the problem by sending form | letters to spammers pointing out that we are musicians, so | most of us probably don't have enough money to be worth | their attention. ;-) | | Sigh.. I'm so used to spam. You can

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Toby Rider
John Chambers wrote: Toby writes: | John Chambers wrote: | | (Perhaps we could also solve the problem by sending form | letters to spammers pointing out that we are musicians, so | most of us probably don't have enough money to be worth | their attention. ;-) | | Sigh..

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Laurie (ukonline)
I apparently am now on my way to earning a PhD in 8 months. Cool! :-) 8 months is far too long for a PhD! I've had many offers of instant ones. I'm hanging out for a D Phil. Meanwhile I shall making a fortune stuffing envelopes and taking part in 100% legal pyramid selling schemes, cancelling

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread John Chambers
| John Chambers wrote: | Toby writes: | | On the positive side, I've been able to make a million dollars on the | | stock market, grow the length of my penis several inches, buy cheap real | | estate in South America, buy male growth hormone, help Nigerians in | | trouble, and meet single

[abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-14 Thread Jack Campin
I occasionally trawl Google to see where my email address might have got to and find out who is responsible for the 200 spams a day I am now getting. This is a new one that affects everybody here: http://www.mail-archive.com/abcusers@argyll.wisemagic.com/msg04233.html I don't know who those

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-14 Thread Toby Rider
They're probably subscribed to the abcusers list. Since you are a list subscriber, you can send majordomo a who command, and go through the entire list of abcuser subscribers, find any email addresses that look suspect. Then you can send them an email demanding to know if they are the