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
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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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.
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Dinesh A. Joshi