Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:16:46PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: >> It shouldn't have to tell you what domain to use for postmaster for this >> mailing list. > >The four words "for this mailing list" would have been enough, thank you. If you'd actually used the two words "p

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: > It shouldn't have to tell you what domain to use for postmaster for this > mailing list. The four words "for this mailing list" would have been enough, thank you. > You did manage to figure it out but, unfortunately, your forwarded > header shows that the email respon

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 03:17:01PM +, Achim Gratz wrote: >Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: >> "Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of >> the message to postmaster." > >Yeah, just about any postmaster? I've got a new one from Joe Assistly and just >guessed t

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > "Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of > the message to postmaster." Yeah, just about any postmaster? I've got a new one from Joe Assistly and just guessed the domain since you don't want to tell. Hope it'll get to the righ

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 14/05/2012 12:30 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing list and not a vBulletin type forum. I second the motion. No. Mailing lists are in

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 07:37:08PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: >> Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of >> the message to postmaster. Include all headers so that we can track >> this down. > >This is happening on a few debian lists as well,

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:30:49AM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: >On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: >> Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: >>> As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing >>> list and not a vBulletin type forum. >> >> I second the mot

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Rousell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/05/2012 19:30, Daniel Colascione wrote: > On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: >> Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: >>> As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing >>> list and not a vBulletin type for

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: > Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: >> As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing >> list and not a vBulletin type forum. > > I second the motion. > No. Mailing lists are infinitely easier to filter, archive, and

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Ken Jackson
Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: > As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing > list and not a vBulletin type forum. I second the motion. -Ken Jackson -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/fa

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread LMH
As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing list and not a vBulitin type forum. Would not such spam be easier to control with forum admin tools? At least a user needs to sign up (possibly with some form of CAPTCHA) and the account needs to be approved and activated. At

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: > Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of > the message to postmaster. Include all headers so that we can track > this down. This is happening on a few debian lists as well, Google will show you. It is unconcluive if he's even subscribed to

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:36:14AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:22:37AM -0400, Andr? Bleau wrote: >>A few minutes after sending my last post to the cygwin at cygwin dot >>com list, I received this, >> >>seemingly from cygwin at cygwin dot com, but really from some >>

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:22:37AM -0400, Andr? Bleau wrote: >A few minutes after sending my last post to the cygwin at cygwin dot >com list, I received this, > >seemingly from cygwin at cygwin dot com, but really from some >joe1assitly at gmail dot com. How very annoying. I've already nuked some

Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread André Bleau
Hi, A few minutes after sending my last post to the cygwin at cygwin dot com list, I received this, seemingly from cygwin at cygwin dot com, but really from some joe1assitly at gmail dot com. --- __