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Subject: Re: Possible spam?
From: Ken Parker <admin @ kparker . nai . net>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 23:24:02 -0500 (EST)
To: List Managers <list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM>
In-reply-to: <B0000285459@ec3.earthchannel.com>
Reply-to: Ken Parker <admin @ kparker . nai . net>


   I'm not sure WHAT'S going on!  I've been recently getting some
people from AOL who have been acting rather abusive in their 
attempts to leave my list:  One sending a post to the list with
"REMOVE, REMOVE, REMOVE!!!" in the body.  There's another strange
case, also from AOL, who tried to forward over 10 digests to my list
(which puts new subscribers in digest mode, requiring them to enter
another command if they want regular mail).  Fortunately, I'm using
Listproc 6.0c, which bounces on duplicate Message ID's, so they
didn't make it to the list.  Well, yesterday, I Unzubscribed him,
but today, he was back on the list and tried forwarding more
digests (always with the word, "unsubscribe" added to the front 
of the message).  Thinking someone's repeat-zubscribing him,
I simply put a "Postpone" on his record.

   I'm a bit puzzled, wondering if people ARE being subscribed
against their will.  (And, being Listproc, they'd have to be
zubscribed via E-Mail address spoofing, too...)

    Anyone else?

      Ken Parker  (http://kparker.nai.net)

On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Gess Shankar wrote:

> SmileySmak@aol.com appears to be subscribing to every list starting 
> with letter a thru to z. Either this person is up to no good or poor 
> SmileySmak is being bombed.




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