Great Circle Associates List-Managers
(December 1996)
 

Indexed By Date: [Previous] [Next] Indexed By Thread: [Previous] [Next]

Subject: subscribing to many lists
From: "Lazlo Nibble" <lazlo @ swcp . com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 15:12:20 -0700 (MST)
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com (lm)

>> Subject: slcb1bbs@juno.com
>> 
>> Don't allow this address onto your lists if you can help it -- they're
>> subscribing to mailing lists so they can spam them.
> 
> It is NOT my experience that the charge made is true.  Rather, most of
> these people are poor schmucks who are being mailbombed by bozos who use
> OUR resources to hassle others.  They forge the return line in order to
> sign some hapless victim up for as many lists as possible, so the poor
> slob has to abandon his address in order to get anything done.  To then
> slander them with "spammer" accusations adds insult to injury.

In this case, the charge was true.  I was there, Randy -- you weren't.

-- 
::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)

Indexed By Date Previous: Re: Re[6]: Lyris
From: James Cook <jcook@netcom.com>
Next: Re: Re[4]: Lyris
From: Dave Bigham <dbigham@cantec.com>
Indexed By Thread Previous: subscribing to many lists
From: Randy Cassingham <arcie@netcom.com>
Next: Email scanners??? is there such a thing?
From: Ctaylor <ctaylor@pps.pgh.pa.us>

Google
 
Search Internet Search www.greatcircle.com