[sclug] Nospam puzzle

Neil Haughton haughtonomous at googlemail.com
Sat Mar 2 16:58:49 UTC 2013


On 2 March 2013 15:03, Dickon Hood <dickon-ml at fluff.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 10:27:56 +0000, Neil Haughton wrote:
> : Is there something amiss with sclug's mailing list? Often when I post
> : something, I get a response from nospam at bradleyatkins.com announcing my
> : email won't be delivered because he gets too much spam.
>
> : Who is Bradley Atkins, and why is my post being directed to him? Is it
> : intentional? The response seems to me to be a mild form of spam in it's
> own
> : right.
>
> There was a trend for such things a while back: you basically make the
> sender jump through extra hoops to get added to a whitelist (at best).
> Basically, they're contributing to the problem, although they're extremely
> effective for the user.
>
> The right thing to do is forceably unsubscribe him, which only the list
> admins can do.
>
>
> Dickon Hood
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If nobody else objects, would the list admin person please do this?

Neil



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