Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any time you buy a large list of addresses from somewhere, you bypass the first steps of that process, and that would make you a spammer. Can I RETRACT my post, Brad?? Ed (properly admonished + red-faced!) -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-25 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fre, 2008-01-25 at 06:41 +, Khalil Abbas wrote: Now this is the most logical and reasonale answer I've ever got .. this is what I call: a reply from a professional.. she's right, I have no idea that this is spamming.. all I know about spamming is those who send you repeatedly every once

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Khalil: Now this is the most logical and reasonale answer I've ever got .. this is what I call: a reply from a professional.. she's right, I have no idea that this is spamming.. all I know about spamming is those who send you repeatedly every once in a while, and all I wanna do is send a

[Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-24 Thread Khalil Abbas
Hello mailman guys.. ok, I have a dedicated server .. and I use mailman to send a daily newsletter.. I recenly got a list of 1,000,000 email addresses that I want to use to promote my website and mailing list .. can I create another mailman installation and add these addresses to it and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-24 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, 2008/1/24, Khalil Abbas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello mailman guys.. ok, I have a dedicated server .. and I use mailman to send a daily newsletter.. I recenly got a list of 1,000,000 email addresses that I want to use to promote my website and mailing list .. can I create another

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-24 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Khalil Abbas wrote: ok, I have a dedicated server .. and I use mailman to send a daily newsletter.. I recenly got a list of 1,000,000 email addresses that I want to use to promote my website and mailing list .. Not what you want to hear, but -even-if- 100%

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, 2008/1/24, Khalil Abbas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello mailman guys.. ok, I have a dedicated server .. and I use mailman to send a daily newsletter.. I recenly got a list of 1,000,000 email addresses that I want to use to promote my website and mailing list ..

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-24 Thread Allan Hansen
I agree, and it's not harsh enough. My first reaction to this was Oh-My-God. My second reaction was to think that we needed an agreement among Mailman list users that Mailman not be used for spam. Then I realized that that would only inconvenience legit Mailman users and spammers would not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-24 Thread Cyndi Norwitz
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:31:48 -0800 From: Allan Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I suppose that the best response is to simply ignore requests such as this which so obviously is from a spammer. I disagree. They shouldn't be ignored. They should be denounced. Previous posters covered

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 24, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Allan Hansen wrote: I agree, and it's not harsh enough. My first reaction to this was Oh-My-God. My second reaction was to think that we needed an agreement among Mailman list users that Mailman not be used for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-24 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/24/08, Barry Warsaw wrote: However, I think it's perfectly appropriate to denounce spammers, and refuse to help them. Speaking only for myself, if I discover that someone has actively used Mailman to further their illegal and/or immoral spamming activities, then I will take any and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-24 Thread Khalil Abbas
.. and for the guys who thrashed me.. thanks too, but I didn't know.. anyways, no harm done.. Thanks .. Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:22:09 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mailman-users@python.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-24 Thread Cyndi Norwitz
From: Khalil Abbas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:41:14 + Now this is the most logical and reasonale answer I've ever got .. this is what I call: a reply from a professional.. she's right, I have no idea that this is spamming.. all I know about spamming is those

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-24 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello again, 2008/1/25, Cyndi Norwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Khalil Abbas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:41:14 + Now this is the most logical and reasonale answer I've ever got .. this is what I call: a reply from a professional.. she's right, I have no