On Thu, 15 Jun 1995, Postmaster wrote: > Hello all, > > I forward the following e-mail which I received to you all. Hope this > will lighten up your day. I apologize if this is inappropriate. An interesting departure, Dustin. Thanks! Below reflects my own personal options/risks/and irresponsible comments and does not speak to my postmaster duties. (Got to be careful here). > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > To Whom It May Concern: > > Below follows an email message received from your network site, > evidently by [log in to unmask] who has taken it upon > themselves to interfere with my account's email traffic into > the internet. This sounds like serious stuff! It is sort of like playing with the Federal Mail. > This evidently was in regards to a post sent to several pertinent > mailing lists, including one I operate here at my own site, > regarding a roleplaying game project that has been discussed > for the past 6 moths. It was not 'spammed', it was posted to > legitimate mailing lists (including persons within my own list) > over the past few days. So you also run a Listserv, perhaps participate in the backbone, (via the registration your postmaster sent in) and have read the release notes about the new features including the 'spam detection' features which have been discussed far longer than the new release has been available? Ok... > I would like you to investigate whoever is running this 'cancelbot' > operation and deal with it. Our account is paid for thru a provider > and interference with legitimate email posting such of this > borders (and may have crossed) into the illegal. Well, we are running it...don't plan to disable it under threat or enticement. It is the best thing since icing on a cake. I think you may want to talk to your ISP about this before suggesting that we are participating in illegal behavior. > If you support the actions of this personage, please let it be known > I have contacted my provider and if necessary will be contacting > my lawyer in this matter to deal with the situation if something > is not done. We do indeed support it... I could probably give you about 25 names of our Listowners for your lawyers if you like. We look forward to hearing what they have to say. We don't plan on doing anything, and we certainly hope Lsoft doesn't pull this new feature. But then again it isn't Lsoft's responsibilty to suspend it but ours...so we are to blame here. Seriously though. We have also been in the same situation where a legitimate posting to multiple mailing lists has been detected as a spam. Our listowners just forwared what is 'ok'....they have been informed about the new features and what may happen, and I have had no complaints, but only positive feedback...or none at all. The spam detection just renders the Listowner as 'Editor' for 48 hours. No big deal here. And most seem to think this minor inconvenience is well worth the junk that usually gets through. I'm not a listowner, but I suspect they get more than enough flack from their subscribers for these kinds of posts that this new feature detects....and forwards to listowners. I won't turn it off....even if I knew how to do so globally. I've waited too long for it. :-) --Trish -------- Computing Services University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada