Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-24 Thread Ronda Brown
Oh Michael, Why is it, that I am not believing what you are saying here? You are part of MacResolve, you registered the domain macresolve.com.au, you are the Mike of the Super Duo Tony Mike (are you not)? But, you say you are unaware of a huge bulk email that has been sent from your

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-24 Thread Les Standish
Whoops! Sorry, spelt your name wrong Ronni. Les On 24/04/2009, at 6:44 PM, Les Standish wrote: Well said Ronnie. Les Standish On 24/04/2009, at 2:31 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Oh Michael, Why is it, that I am not believing what you are saying here? You are part of MacResolve, you registered the

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-24 Thread Les Standish
Well said Ronnie. Les Standish On 24/04/2009, at 2:31 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Oh Michael, Why is it, that I am not believing what you are saying here? You are part of MacResolve, you registered the domain macresolve.com.au, you are the Mike of the Super Duo Tony Mike (are you not)? But,

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Digilife could also be the connection for me - I was on their mailing list with that address. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 23/4/09 1:43 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au at rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Digilife

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Jude
I'v also been hit, but I'm also on Digilife and WAMUG, so not sure which. Not a great way to get my custom, anyway, especially by telling me in the actual email that it's not spam. Um, unsolicited sales via email, looks like spam, smells like spam, annoys me like spam.. -- The WA Macintosh

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Ronda Brown
On 23/04/2009, at 2:47 PM, Jude wrote: I'v also been hit, but I'm also on Digilife and WAMUG, so not sure which. Not a great way to get my custom, anyway, especially by telling me in the actual email that it's not spam. Um, unsolicited sales via email, looks like spam, smells like spam,

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Neil Others, If it proves to be Digilife that has given/sold our email addresses to this MacResolve, they could find themselves in more trouble than Receivership. http://www.digilife.com.au/newsletter.html Your contact details will not be given to any other company, nor will they be

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Daniel Forsdyke
I was Digilife's mailing list as well, and it was probably the address that was used for this. Could it be some recently ex-employee's setting up own business? Regards Daniel Forsdyke On 23/04/2009, at 16:54, Ronda Brown ro...@wn.com.au wrote: Hi Neil Others, If it proves to be Digilife

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread mince and pud
Just as a 'control' in this experiment - I wasn't on digilife's list and I didn't get the spam regards Alastair www.goatpix.com On 23 Apr 2009, at 09:58, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: I was Digilife's mailing list as well, and it was probably the address that was used for this. Could it be

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Eugene
Ditto Regards, Eugene On 23/04/2009, at 5:02 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: I am also on the Digilife list and received the email this morning. Cheers, Walter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Daniel, If it is ex-employee's or personnel of Digilife and they have used The Newsletter Mailing list to Spam us, I would suggest that they cannot Legally do this. Cheers, Ronni On 23/04/2009, at 4:58 PM, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: I was Digilife's mailing list as well, and it was

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 23/4/09 12:22 PM, Matthew Healey mat...@mac.com wrote: Did anyone else get spammed by Tony Mike from MacResolve? I got an email from them and would like to see where they got their list from. - Matt Healey I didn't get an email at all, and seeing as I only use wa...@mydomain I would

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Shay Telfer
On 23/04/2009 3:05 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 23/04/2009, at 2:47 PM, Jude wrote: I'v also been hit, but I'm also on Digilife and WAMUG, so not sure which. Not a great way to get my custom, anyway, especially by telling me in the actual email that it's not spam. Um, unsolicited sales via

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread David Moyle
: Thursday, 23 April, 2009 5:03:50 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Re: MacResolve Spam Just as a 'control' in this experiment - I wasn't on digilife's list and I didn't get the spam regards Alastair www.goatpix.com On 23 Apr 2009, at 09:58, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: I

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread F.W. Hänel
I am also on the Digilife list and received the email this morning. Cheers, Walter On 23/04/2009, at 4:58 PM, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: I was Digilife's mailing list as well, and it was probably the address that was used for this. Could it be some recently ex-employee's setting up own

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Malcolm Burtenshaw
Intermatron detective to the rescue. The macresolve.com.au domain registration shows: Registrant Contact Name Michael Waldie Oh look what we have here? May I partake? http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/msg45002.html A We at digilife labelled email from Michael Waldie to the

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Martin Sulkowski
I'm only on the WAMUG list and didn't receive anything Martin On 23/04/2009, at 5:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Daniel, If it is ex-employee's or personnel of Digilife and they have used The Newsletter Mailing list to Spam us, I would suggest that they cannot Legally do this. Cheers,

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Well done Malcolm, What we do with this information is up to us! I for one will be pursuing it ... I do not like my email address being exploited by Spammers. As I said before: If it proves to be Digilife that has given/sold our email addresses to this MacResolve, they could find

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Malcolm Burtenshaw
Oh and if you find this as abhorrent as I do please complain at this address: http://www.acma.gov.au/interforms/spam_complaint_email.asp Make sure to log it as a complaint so that they investigate it rather than adding it to the pile. Mal On 23/04/2009, at 6:19 PM, Malcolm Burtenshaw

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread James Devenish
Hi, I don't think it's the WAMUG list OR the DigiLife newsletter list per se. Following from Daniel and Malcolm B's contributions, I have been using this address (Gmail) for WAMUG since 2005 and I did NOT receive the SPAM here. The common denominator and most likely suspect seems to be

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Matthew Healey
On 23/04/2009, at 8:22 PM, James Devenish wrote: Since Michael Waldie is subscribed to this list, might he confirm or deny his involvement? Well he only joined using his current email address on the 21st of April... Mike.. want to let us all know what's going on? - Matt -- The WA

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Barb Zahari
Ditto .. no Digilife, no spam ... BarbZ On 23 Apr 2009, at 5:03 PM, mince and pud wrote: Just as a 'control' in this experiment - I wasn't on digilife's list and I didn't get the spam regards Alastair www.goatpix.com On 23 Apr 2009, at 09:58, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: I was Digilife's

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Malcolm McCallum
/ Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Re: MacResolve Spam Just as a 'control' in this experiment - I wasn't on digilife's list and I didn't get the spam regards Alastair www.goatpix.com On 23 Apr 2009, at 09:58, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: I was Digilife's mailing list as well, and it was probably

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 23/04/2009, at 5:03 PM, mince and pud wrote: Just as a 'control' in this experiment - I wasn't on digilife's list and I didn't get the spam regards Alastair Same here... -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Ronda Brown
On 23/04/2009, at 5:17 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: Of course if you've been a customer of them in the past and they consider you to have a 'strong business relationship' with them and you haven't opted out of this then it's probably not considered spam as there's inferred consent:

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Yes Rod, The ACMA have been notified and are interested in this. To think that a subscriber to WAMUG Mailing list (probably not a paid member) may be involved in this unethical situation is abhorring to me. Would our paid up Corporate Members of WAMUG (the likes of Daniel Kerry

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Sorry Daniel ;-( ... you know I must be upset to type your name incorrectly. Kerry Ronni On 24/04/2009, at 9:09 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Yes Rod, The ACMA have been notified and are interested in this. To think that a subscriber to WAMUG Mailing list (probably not a paid member) may be

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread John Thompson
Likewise. On 24/04/2009, at 8:31 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 23/04/2009, at 5:03 PM, mince and pud wrote: Just as a 'control' in this experiment - I wasn't on digilife's list and I didn't get the spam regards Alastair Same here... -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Ronda Brown
Hey Malcolm, Looks like they have also copied this guys Rate Sheet and the name MacResolve. http://www.macresolve.com/ Look at his Rate Sheet and look at http://www.macresolve.com.au/ Information Sheet and Rates ?? macresolve.com is registered to Race Owen an American working in

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Michael Waldie
Hello all, First of all, yes I am a part of MacResolve and as was pointed out, I registered the domain for macresolve.com.au. I did not have a part in sending the email or any of the addresses. I have been trying to get the name around by word of mouth in person. Unfortunately, the last

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-23 Thread Alexia Langley
FYI I've never been on the DigiLife mailing list however used to deal with them regularly a few years ago. I received the email and didn't really bother to read it because it looked like spam! Alexia Langley

MacResolve Spam

2009-04-22 Thread Matthew Healey
Did anyone else get spammed by Tony Mike from MacResolve? I got an email from them and would like to see where they got their list from. - Matt Healey -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-22 Thread Daniel Forsdyke
Yes I did as well. It went to the address I used to use for WAMUG, but changed mid-late last year. Regards Daniel Forsdyke On 23/04/2009, at 12:22, Matthew Healey mat...@mac.com wrote: Did anyone else get spammed by Tony Mike from MacResolve? I got an email from them and would like to

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-22 Thread Jane Griffiths
Me too, but not the email address that i use for WAMUG or for most of my Mac related communications. It did puzzle me as to where they sourced my particular email address. I wondered whether DigiLife was possibly the connection in my case but that is just conjecture. Jane. On

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-22 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Matt, Me too, and it is the address I use for WAMUG Mailing list. Cheers, Ronni On 23/04/2009, at 12:36 PM, Jane Griffiths wrote: Me too, but not the email address that i use for WAMUG or for most of my Mac related communications. It did puzzle me as to where they sourced my

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-22 Thread Neil Houghton
Me too -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 23/4/09 12:22 PM, Matthew Healey at mat...@mac.com wrote: Did anyone else get spammed by Tony Mike from MacResolve? I got an email from them and would like to see where they got their

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-22 Thread Susan Hastings
Yea, happened to me, too. On 23/04/2009, at 12:22 PM, Matthew Healey wrote: Did anyone else get spammed by Tony Mike from MacResolve? I got an email from them and would like to see where they got their list from. - Matt Healey -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-22 Thread James Devenish
Hi, Mine came through to an address that I have not used since 2004 or 2005. The address is not currently associated with any mailing lists or online stores, so Tony Mike must have used a spam list that is several years old. It *does* seem to be specifically targeted to Mac users and not

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-22 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
I also got it but to my Office address!!! Roger On Thu Apr 23 13:32 , James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com sent: Hi, Mine came through to an address that I have not used since 2004 or 2005. The address is not currently associated with any mailing lists or online stores, so Tony Mike must have

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-22 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Digilife could be the connection as they would have had my office address but not my personal email address! On Thu Apr 23 12:22 , Matthew Healey mat...@mac.com sent: Did anyone else get spammed by Tony Mike from MacResolve? I got an email from them and would like to see where they got their

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-22 Thread Neil Houghton
It can't just be an old list as mine came to an address on a domain I didn't register till 2007 - but it IS my WAMUG list address. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 23/4/09 1:32 PM, James Devenish at