On Wednesday, August 30, 2000 at 4:25 PM or thereabouts, Leif
Gregory wrote the following about Someone spamming us:
JS>> Someone with access to the TBUDL and TBBETA membership lists
JS>> (using the From: address ---- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, passing
JS>> through a relay which claims to be cyberpass.net) seems to
JS>> believe I might be interested in buying a CD packed full of
JS>> what is clearly pirated commercial software, for $15. Ho hum.
FWIW, I received two copies of this spam, as well ... presumably one
for each of my subscriptions (TBBETA and TBUDL).
LG> We'll check the subscribers list, but chances are that they are
LG> spider botting the list archives. If this is the case, then
LG> there isn't much that can be done unfortunately. Other than
LG> killing off the list archives, which we wouldn't want to do,
LG> because list archives are *very* useful.
Just think of the potential spamming that would occur if we were
gated to Usenet, or solely there, as has been suggested. (Not that
I want to open up *that* discussion again! :-) ... just wanted to
confirm that others on both lists have received the same mailings.)
Chuck
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Humanity prefers comfort over truth.
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