Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of the message to postmaster. Yeah, just about any postmaster? I've got a new one from Joe Assistly and just guessed the domain since you don't want to

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 03:17:01PM +, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of the message to postmaster. Yeah, just about any postmaster? I've got a new one from Joe

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: It shouldn't have to tell you what domain to use for postmaster for this mailing list. The four words for this mailing list would have been enough, thank you. You did manage to figure it out but, unfortunately, your forwarded header shows that the email response

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:16:46PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: It shouldn't have to tell you what domain to use for postmaster for this mailing list. The four words for this mailing list would have been enough, thank you. If you'd actually used the two words postmaster

Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread André Bleau
Hi, A few minutes after sending my last post to the cygwin at cygwin dot com list, I received this, seemingly from cygwin at cygwin dot com, but really from some joe1assitly at gmail dot com. --- __

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:22:37AM -0400, Andr? Bleau wrote: A few minutes after sending my last post to the cygwin at cygwin dot com list, I received this, seemingly from cygwin at cygwin dot com, but really from some joe1assitly at gmail dot com. How very annoying. I've already nuked someone

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:36:14AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:22:37AM -0400, Andr? Bleau wrote: A few minutes after sending my last post to the cygwin at cygwin dot com list, I received this, seemingly from cygwin at cygwin dot com, but really from some

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of the message to postmaster. Include all headers so that we can track this down. This is happening on a few debian lists as well, Google will show you. It is unconcluive if he's even subscribed to

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread LMH
As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing list and not a vBulitin type forum. Would not such spam be easier to control with forum admin tools? At least a user needs to sign up (possibly with some form of CAPTCHA) and the account needs to be approved and activated. At

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Ken Jackson
Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing list and not a vBulletin type forum. I second the motion. -Ken Jackson -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing list and not a vBulletin type forum. I second the motion. No. Mailing lists are infinitely easier to filter, archive, and read.

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Rousell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/05/2012 19:30, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing list and not a vBulletin type forum. I

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:30:49AM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing list and not a vBulletin type forum. I second the motion. No.

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 07:37:08PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of the message to postmaster. Include all headers so that we can track this down. This is happening on a few debian lists as well, Google

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 14/05/2012 12:30 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing list and not a vBulletin type forum. I second the motion. No. Mailing lists are