Re: Spam

2014-06-22 Thread Ted Dunning
My position on this sort of thing has shifted a whole lot over the last few years. I used to be very careful about offending bots but after dealing hundreds of these accounts on MapR user facing sites, I am way less sympathetic. Kudos for humanity but I recommend not losing much sleep here.

Re: Spam

2014-06-22 Thread Julian Hyde
It's laudable that you should give this individual the benefit of the doubt. I agree, the motivation is not as simple as malicious spam. But their behavior has been disruptive. Maybe contact them and ask them why they want to be on the list? We don't want to ban "people", b

Re: Spam

2014-06-22 Thread Tim Ellison
Julian, There are a few more messages from this sender in the moderator queue that I'm looking at, and while I agree they don't add a great deal of value, I'm struggling to see the goal if they are (malicious) spam. I'm guessing we don't want to ban people for being misg

Re: Spam

2014-06-20 Thread Konstantin Boudnik
Evidently +1 to ban the account On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 04:37PM, Julian Hyde wrote: > The dozen or so messages from abiola balogun on this list > in the past month have been monosyllabic non sequiturs [1]. I think he/she/it > is a spam bot and propose that he/she/it be removed from

Spam

2014-06-20 Thread Julian Hyde
The dozen or so messages from abiola balogun on this list in the past month have been monosyllabic non sequiturs [1]. I think he/she/it is a spam bot and propose that he/she/it be removed from the list. Julian [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/general@incubator.apache.org/maillist.html

RE: Spam on the Incubator wiki

2012-04-30 Thread Gavin McDonald
> -Original Message- > From: Franklin, Matthew B. [mailto:mfrank...@mitre.org] > Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2012 12:30 AM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: Spam on the Incubator wiki > > >-Original Message- > >From: Jukka Zitting [

RE: Spam on the Incubator wiki

2012-04-30 Thread Franklin, Matthew B.
>-Original Message- >From: Jukka Zitting [mailto:jukka.zitt...@gmail.com] >Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 8:20 AM >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: Spam on the Incubator wiki > >Hi, > >On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Franklin, Matthew B. > wro

Re: Spam on the Incubator wiki

2012-04-30 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Franklin, Matthew B. wrote: > Can you please grant my account (MattFranklin) edit karma for the wiki? Done. BR, Jukka Zitting - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache

RE: Spam on the Incubator wiki

2012-04-30 Thread Franklin, Matthew B.
Can you please grant my account (MattFranklin) edit karma for the wiki? Thanks. >-Original Message- >From: Gavin McDonald [mailto:ga...@16degrees.com.au] >Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:21 AM >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Subject: RE: Spam on the

Re: Spam on the Incubator wiki

2012-04-22 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Gavin McDonald wrote: > Someone should change the greeting/edit instructions on the incubator home > page > to state that a once off email to general@ is enough to be granted wiki write > access. Done. BR, Jukka Zitting --

RE: Spam on the Incubator wiki

2012-04-11 Thread Gavin McDonald
> -Original Message- > From: Jukka Zitting [mailto:jukka.zitt...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2012 3:05 AM > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Spam on the Incubator wiki > > Hi Gavin, > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Gavin McDona

Re: Spam on the Incubator wiki

2012-04-10 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi Gavin, On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Gavin McDonald wrote: > I'm seeing more and more spam appear, just give me the nod and it'll be > done. You're the man! With no objections raised, please make the change. Thanks

RE: Spam on the Incubator wiki

2012-04-10 Thread Gavin McDonald
> -Original Message- > From: Jukka Zitting [mailto:jukka.zitt...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, 7 April 2012 12:11 AM > To: general > Subject: Spam on the Incubator wiki > > Hi, > > Looks like the Incubator wiki is getting hit by spammers. A simple solution to

Spam on the Incubator wiki

2012-04-06 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, Looks like the Incubator wiki is getting hit by spammers. A simple solution to the problem is to require whitelisting of all wiki users [1], though it does add a bit of an entry barrier. I'll request infra to make the required configuration change unless anyone comes up with an alternative sol

Re: A Spam ? (was: Re: You have been recruited to the Love/Avon Army of Women)

2011-08-31 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Bernd, On Wednesday, 2011-08-31 15:23:36 +0200, Bernd Fondermann wrote: > I don't remember seeing this in the moderation queue, It was, at least it has the header Delivered-To: moderator for general@incubator.apache.org Eike -- PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail preferred in all private c

Re: A Spam ? (was: Re: You have been recruited to the Love/Avon Army of Women)

2011-08-31 Thread Bernd Fondermann
---Original Message- > From: Mohammad Nour El-Din [mailto:nour.moham...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 05:03 > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Subject: A Spam ? (was: Re: You have been recruited to the Love/Avon Army of > Women) > > Hi All... > >   Is that

RE: A Spam ? (was: Re: You have been recruited to the Love/Avon Army of Women)

2011-08-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It's a version of the Nigerian scam, but claimed to be from Ivory Coast. -Original Message- From: Mohammad Nour El-Din [mailto:nour.moham...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 05:03 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: A Spam ? (was: Re: You have been recruited to the

A Spam ? (was: Re: You have been recruited to the Love/Avon Army of Women)

2011-08-31 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi All... Is that a Spam ? 2011/8/31 frank_kamar...@yahoo.fr : > frank_kamar...@yahoo.fr has invited you to the Army of Women website > > Assistance d'urgence. > > S'IL VOUS PLAÎT NOTE réponse à mon e-mail > privé > CASE CI-DESSOUS frank_kamar...@

Re: [***SPAM***] - [List1] U.M.A. II English International Open Judo Back to Back Ne

2008-02-15 Thread Upayavira
Thanks for the suggestion. None of the email addresses mentioned in this email are subscribed to general@, so currently, I find this email bizarrely inexplicable. Regards, Upayavira On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 11:19 +0100, Endre Stølsvik wrote: > Upayavira wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:48 -0500,

Re: [***SPAM***] - [List1] U.M.A. II English International Open Judo Back to Back Ne

2008-02-15 Thread Endre Stølsvik
Upayavira wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:48 -0500, Ben Ramsey wrote: On 2/14/08 6:07 AM, Dynamis Gym wrote: I have completed the UNSUBSCRIBE REQUEST twice now, and you are still sending me these e-mails. Please REMOVE ME FROM YOUR LIST immediately, or I will report you for harvesting my e-m

Re: [***SPAM***] - [List1] U.M.A. II English International Open Judo Back to Back Ne

2008-02-15 Thread Upayavira
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:48 -0500, Ben Ramsey wrote: > On 2/14/08 6:07 AM, Dynamis Gym wrote: > > I have completed the UNSUBSCRIBE REQUEST twice now, and you are still > > sending me these e-mails. > > > > Please REMOVE ME FROM YOUR LIST immediately, or I will report you for > > harvesting my e

Re: [***SPAM***] - [List1] U.M.A. II English International Open Judo Back to Back Ne

2008-02-15 Thread Ben Ramsey
On 2/14/08 6:07 AM, Dynamis Gym wrote: I have completed the UNSUBSCRIBE REQUEST twice now, and you are still sending me these e-mails. Please REMOVE ME FROM YOUR LIST immediately, or I will report you for harvesting my e-mail from the internet and NOT allowing me to unsubscribe. As of right

Re: Reject or ignore spam?

2006-04-24 Thread Davanum Srinivas
. > > First look in the mail and check if it is spam (or other severely > misguided mail). If it is, then just ignore the mail and it will > bounce after 5 days, or reply to the -reject address in the mail header. > > If you *should* ignore spam for the reason you give below, perhap

Reject or ignore spam?

2006-04-24 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi George, From the http://apache.planetmirror.com.au/dev/committers.html: I am a moderator and receive these "MODERATE" emails. First look in the mail and check if it is spam (or other severely misguided mail). If it is, then just ignore the mail and it will bounce after 5 days