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Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic
From: |
Al Gilman |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic |
Date: |
Fri, 23 May 1997 15:00:01 -0400 (EDT) |
From: Jason Baker <address@hidden>
On May 23, E Powell wrote:
> Hello There,
>
> Your name has been passed on to us as having an interest in the RMS
Titanic.
Hmm. Anyone else starting to find these subscriptions a tad suspicious?
Starting to look to me like somebody is trying to degrade the list by
subbing it to as many unrelated lists as possible.
Of course, I could just be paranoid. :)
[Al, here...]
You will see by the archive that I did send a letter of complaint
about this one.
I thought about the malicious-third-party angle, but mostly
rejected it as unlikely.
E Powell is clearly behaving as a bad apple. No reputable list
manager would accept third-party subscriptions. The abuse of
lists as mailbombs is too well-known. And this "respond if you
_don't_ want our junk mail" is the standard spam scam language.
On the other hand, E Powell may be an unwitting bad apple
innocently wanting to join forces with fellow Titanic fans, and
having come into posession of a spamming kit without
understanding that it is based on antisocial procedures.
So I throttled the flame-thrower back a little.
--
Al Gilman
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- LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic, E Powell, 1997/05/23
- remove, Al Gilman, 1997/05/23
- Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic, Jason Baker, 1997/05/23
- Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic,
Al Gilman <=
- LYNX-DEV Free Deckchairs!, Philip Webb, 1997/05/23
- Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic, Michael Warner, 1997/05/23
- Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic, Al Gilman, 1997/05/24
- Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic, Bob Izenberg, 1997/05/24
- Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic, T.E.Dickey, 1997/05/24
- Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic, Philip Webb, 1997/05/24
- Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic, Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim), 1997/05/25
- Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic, Philip Webb, 1997/05/24
Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic, Les Wallis, 1997/05/25