Yes i agree its pathetic and quite cheap on the part of the person who gave away the ids. They really should be banned
On 12/16/09, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > People might not think this is important even so am posting my 2 bits. > > Today , yet again, some spam came in from https://www.boxbe.com > through a list member. > > I am sure its a list member because i ran a search for the address on > my gmail accounbt and it returned only Ubuntu.in mails - and one of > the posters (in many mails) had the same email id. > > The reason for confirming the identity (as an Ubuntu.in member) and > posting is that this is a recurrent problem. At the least its > irritable and the address can be spammed and we can continue to > ignore. But its a larger problem kind of like when some one speaks > they spit in your face or use abusive language or if you hand them > your calling card they leave photocopies of it lying around. > > Boxbe now has my address (and am sure many list member addresses) they > also know for sure its a living address. So i am going to credit any > increase in spam to boxbe and the person who gave out my email id. > > So what right does this person have to give out my or anyone's email > id with so much as by your leave and this frankly *pisses* me off. > > What it also means is that there quite a few *SILLY* people on the > list (and in the internet world in general) who are quite ignorant > about normal safety protocols (for self and others) exposing more then > just themselves to the many horrors that masquerade behind so many of > the hoax mails. > > I think, among the MANY things that need to be done its time to start > teaching people mail and internet manners maybe by making a internet > use how to or a mailing list how to or just a simple what *to NEVER > FRIGGIN DO * > > the last i am willing to compile if we we can agree on what people > should never do (any in the tiny fine print why) > > ram > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
