did anyone else on this list receive an invitation to join a loksatta group? wondering whether to complain to yahoo
Sometime on Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:05:29PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves said:
did anyone else on this list receive an invitation to join a loksatta group? wondering whether to complain to yahoo
Are you sure the spammer got hold of your email from this list?
Anurag
On Monday 16 Jan 2006 3:24 pm, Anurag wrote:
did anyone else on this list receive an invitation to join a loksatta group? wondering whether to complain to yahoo
Are you sure the spammer got hold of your email from this list?
thats why i asked - he mentioned two or three names of ppl who had 'recomended' me - never heard of them
On Monday 16 January 2006 09:54, Anurag wrote:
Are you sure the spammer got hold of your email from this list?
Anurag
Yep, this is the likeliest of all sources. I haven't given out this email address to anybody except a few trusted friends and ofcourse this mailing list.
Sometime on Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:16:48PM +0000, Dinesh Joshi said:
Yep, this is the likeliest of all sources. I haven't given out this email address to anybody except a few trusted friends and ofcourse this mailing list.
Posting on this mailing list itself means you're giving away your email to 1000+ people. Strangely, why dont I get such invitations? :)
Anurag
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 16:28, Anurag wrote:
Posting on this mailing list itself means you're giving away your email to 1000+ people. Strangely, why dont I get such invitations? :)
May be spamassasin is doing a great job. I know that I am giving away my email to 1000+ people but I dont think they would sign me up for SPAM lists :| If there are such people then you better weed them out!
I don't think the spam is coming from this server. If it is why are others not getting it.
On 1/17/06, DJ dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 16:28, Anurag wrote:
Posting on this mailing list itself means you're giving away your email to 1000+ people. Strangely, why dont I get such invitations? :)
May be spamassasin is doing a great job. I know that I am giving away my email to 1000+ people but I dont think they would sign me up for SPAM lists :| If there are such people then you better weed them out!
-- Dinesh A. Joshi
Sometime on Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:44:07PM +0530, DJ said:
email to 1000+ people but I dont think they would sign me up for SPAM lists :| If there are such people then you better weed them out!
How and why should I weed anybody out? If you use your email address at public places then you're most likely to get spammed.
Anurag
Sometime on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:11:07PM +0530, DJ said:
If you dont weed out spammers then you are supporting them! :/
Am clueless how i'm supporting ``them''. What if the person spammed you through an email address which isn't registered with this list?
Anurag
On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 11:00 am, Anurag wrote:
If you dont weed out spammers then you are supporting them! :/
Am clueless how i'm supporting ``them''. What if the person spammed you through an email address which isn't registered with this list?
to put this discussion in context - 6 months or so back, i was subscribed without asking to some googlegroup. I asked on delhi and mumbai lists if anyone else had the problem, and lots of mumbai ppl had had the problem - so i reported to google abuse, and others also did so. So this time i again asked the list about it. From the response, it is clear that this time that the source was not a scraping of addresses from this list. And even if it was, i fail to see what the admin can do about it. So lets drop this. I only asked to see if what i got was spam or not.
On 1/18/06, DJ dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:01, Anurag wrote:
How and why should I weed anybody out? If you use your email address at public places then you're most likely to get spammed.
[snip]
If you dont weed out spammers then you are supporting them! :/
How can you ask to weed spammers from a public list. Make this list a private :d Joking !! Instead configure mailing list software to show up email address in the form of user at somedomain dot com or simply hide the email id's completely.
--
Dinesh A. Joshi
On Saturday 21 Jan 2006 12:03 pm, Sejal Patel wrote:
How can you ask to weed spammers from a public list. Make this list a private :d Joking !! Instead configure mailing list software to show up email address in the form of user at somedomain dot com or simply hide the email id's completely.
i just looked at the archives of the list - all 'from' addresses are someone@antispam.org - so no one can scrape addresses from the archives - good thing
Sejal Patel wrote:
On 1/18/06, DJ dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:01, Anurag wrote:
How and why should I weed anybody out? If you use your email address at public places then you're most likely to get spammed.
[snip]
If you dont weed out spammers then you are supporting them! :/
How can you ask to weed spammers from a public list. Make this list a private :d Joking !! Instead configure mailing list software to show up email address in the form of user at somedomain dot com or simply hide the email id's completely.
A little late reply, but this discussion took place a long time ago and the mailman configuration was changed so that the addresses are not easily harvestable by bots.
--
Dinesh A. Joshi
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 9:46 pm, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Monday 16 January 2006 09:54, Anurag wrote:
Are you sure the spammer got hold of your email from this list?
Anurag
Yep, this is the likeliest of all sources. I haven't given out this email address to anybody except a few trusted friends and ofcourse this mailing list.
And ur trusted friends are using the one "Trusted Computing" OS? Most likely harvested from their pc.