On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 21:11, L.F. wrote: > It took me some time but it has worked. Debian has unsubscribed me. I think > Debian is derious. Now I am not receiving any mail from > Debian but I keep receiving a lot of e-mails from many other places: > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > microsoft (without any identification, so it is impossible to send any e-mail > to them),[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. looks like the e-mail with which you subscribed was used for a joe-job. (some-one/-thing used your e-mail-adress as from for broadcasting spam or viruses) nothing too uncommon around here. > I sent them an e-mail with a petition "Please don't send me any e-mails > because I am not interested in getting messages from you and I have not asked > you to send me any messages.Thank you." but they were sent back to me because > they could not be delivered to the recipients for various reasons. > What a cheat! > When I subscribed to Debian those organizations sent me e-mails with those I > got from Debian. I thought that they were sent by Debian, but now that Debian > doesn't send me any more e-mails, these organizations keep sending me e-mails > that I never wanted. It seems to me that it is another sort of spam but how > is it that Microsoft is involved in such dubious methods? I say Microsoft or > somebody working for Microsoft because they send you critical packs from > Microsoft, so Microsoft allows it or condones it. they're not. from-header are easily forgeable. those "securtiy updates", with attachment of about 140kb, are swens. > I think that that the Internet needs to defend the users and it is not so > difficult for Governments or whoever to penalize these con men because it is > easy to track them down. Somehow spasm is here to stay because those who can > do something about it don't seem to care. you got a point there.
> Even filtering the messages doesn't work; the con men seem to know better. > What a messy business! > If they think that people are going to listen to them trying to use dubious > methods, I think they are quite wrong. People get angry when somebody sends unfortunately they're not. if there wasn't a profitbringing amount of people buying the kind of stuff spammers advertise there would be no spammers. > them ads or messages that are not wanted. I think that everybody has the > right to send a message to somebody once but if that other person doesn't > answer, they shouldn't send any more; and besides that, the e-mail address > they use should receive messages from people who tell them not to send them > any more messages. > The only way available is to eliminate all of them from my server. That works > wonderfully. Thanks God there is always a way where there is a will. well, welcome to the club. Michael -- If you don't care where you are you ain't lost! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
