Hi tracer,
On 12 March 2000 at 11:13:15 GMT +0700 (which was 04:13 where I
live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points:
JDH>>> Not doubt you all got the same SPAM mail as I, but I wonder how
JDH>>> many of you noticed the header information:
I didn't actually see this message. Who was the originator?
>> Grrrr. Apparently somebody took the time to subscribe to the list,
>> and then used that subscribe address to spam the list.
>> I'm sorry that this has happened, and I will be spending some time
>> tracking this offender down. Unfortunately, there is no way to
>> prevent this. Any one of us subscribed to the list can just as
>> easily spam the list.
>> This address will be unsubscribed immediately.
I personally prefer to leave such subscribers subscribed with a "READ
ONLY" setting. That way, they cannot spam the list again but are
themselves stuck receiving list traffic. It worked to good effect on a
Korean Mother Board supplier a couple of months back.
Once he started complaining about being on a list he "did not
subscribe to", I took great pleasure in pointing out how unwelcome and
unsociable his behaviour was in the first place. Once he had
apologised, I removed him - but not until.
>> Again, sorry, but it is impossible to stop someone who spams in
>> this manner.
... but using the above method, they think more carefully about doing
it again.
t> is it possible to make subscribers agree that any action like
t> spamming the list is illegal and that they agree that if they do
t> that they performed an illegal act etc??
"Legality" is not enforceable across the international boundaries in
place in a list like ours. Where was the "offence" committed? Where do
we seek to "enforce the law"? In Indonesia, where the servers are
sited? In the spammer's country of origin? In Japan where Leif is or
England where I am?
t> In addition they likely sucked all our emails from the list
Perhaps. The only list member addresses they can see are the ones of
those of us contributing to the list. This is true of any list.
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Cheers,
.\\arck
Marck D. Pearlstone, Consultant Software Engineer
Moderator TBUDL / TBBETA
www: http://www.silverstones.com
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