Izak Burger writes: > Someone at AOL thinks a password reset message is spam. Any ideas on how > this happened?
This is very common with AOL. First (most likely in this case) AOL puts the SPAM button right next to the DELETE button, and AFAIK there's no feedback to the user making it inconvenient to miss. From the user's point of view, they both just make the message disappear. I suppose the confirmation message is a little bit different, but I don't read those messages from my MUAs. I don't suppose anyone reads them at AOL, either, unless they didn't want to delete the message. Second (probably not applicable to someone with a Python tracker account, though), that's the user base that AOL targets: ignorant and loving it. Many AOL users apparently think of any unwanted mail as spam, even if they requested it themselves and later changed their minds. Third, it could be a joe job: somebody who doesn't like the user signed them up for a bunch of mailing lists. I've also heard rumors of bots doing this to grab email addresses out of the list traffic, but that seems pretty perverse, even for a bot, when it's so easy to create a throwaway account that won't upset anybody somewhere and sign that up. _______________________________________________ Tracker-discuss mailing list Tracker-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-discuss
