From: p DOT dalgaard AT biostat DOT ku DOT dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA) Subject: Re: Unsolicited mail - help? 11 Aug 1998 14:40:20 -0700 Message-ID: References: <01J0FMB129FC0003W0 AT scottish-newcastle DOT co DOT uk> To: Robert DOT Cross AT scottish-newcastle DOT co DOT uk Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Robert DOT Cross AT scottish-newcastle DOT co DOT uk writes: > At present I get at least one unsolicted mail message, (like the one reproduced > below), with the gnu-win32 > mailing list footer on it per day. I would presume that I'm not the only list > member targeted by these 'persons' > trying to sell their junk. If other people have been sent this particular > message, and find it annoying, would they > support me, and get this individual removed from the list? If you get the footer, it most likely means that someone has been targeting the *list*, which is certainly better if they were targeting you. The list manager can to some extent block the garbage using filter rules, or by closing the list to non-member submissions, but the latter sort of defeats the purpose of the list... Also useful is to block the EXPN keyword on sendmail (is this done already) so that you can't just obtain a list of all suscribers. Praise yourself lucky, I generally start every email session with zapping ~5 samples of the crap. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p DOT dalgaard AT biostat DOT ku DOT dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".