Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3B5B4C13.1080303@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:56:35 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010713 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kurt Roeckx CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: spam References: <20010722224710 DOT A4471 AT ping DOT be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Can't you people do something about all the spam we get here, > it's rather annoying. Sure. (Note that your message represents the third or fouth "spam-response" in the last week or so. Hence I am finally goaded into responding in turn...I'll wait while you don your asbestos suit). Step #1) don't respond to spam messages on list. Everybody saw the spam. Everybody is annoyed by the spam. Please don't ADD to the @#$@! spam by responding to it. Step #2) File a lawsuit against MAPS. Their evil, dishonest tactics (such as pirate DNS-pollution) have succeeded in basically driving ORBS off the net. (Having eliminated the competition, they then began charging for their service. Previously, both MAPS and ORBS were free. Does this sound like any particular company you know Microsoft ) In the past, cygwin used ORBS. But now we can't. Thus the increase in spam. However, I haven't noticed multiple spams from the same address (unless the multiples come VERY close together) -- so I assume that someone -- probably cgf -- is manually blocking each spammer. Perhaps not. But in any case, rest assured that the list maintainers are even MORE annoyed by the spam than you are, and are doing everything they can to stop it. But PLEASE don't add to the problem by replying, on-list, to every spam that comes through the filter. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/