Message-ID: <005701c24779$78481500$c03dfea9@atlantis>
From: "Matthias Paul" <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: "DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com>
References: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4FD6815 AT emwatent02 DOT meters DOT com DOT au>
Subject: Re: Remove me
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:20:49 +0200
Organization: Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Germany
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On 2002-08-19, Joe da Silva wrote:

> Hmmm ... Not clear how you're supposed to unsubscribe,
> but from the DJGPP list instructions it says :

You're /not/ supposed to unsubscribe from this list. ;-)

We already have had extremely low traffic recently...

But seriously, I'm not sure if Bob was not just trying to unsubscribe
from the SPAMmer's list rather than from our OpenDOS forum.

However, the former won't work anyway, and since they know the address
is valid then, you will get even more SPAM afterwards.
What might help (but usually costs quite some personal energy) is to
try track down the SPAMmer and report him to the "abuse contact" of
the first provider in the chain. Due to the increase of SPAM in the
net and also in this forum, I think, we should consider to force
posters to subscribe to our forum before they can post here. After
all, that's not too difficult and there even is a web form, AFAIK.
DJ, can you do something about it?

The alternative would be to no longer mention this list in other
discussion groups, but this would be contradictory for the original
purpose of this list to have a free and high-quality end user &
developer discussion group and "support channel" for the DR-DOS
family and related problems.

Greetings,

 Matthias

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