At 02:08 PM 8/10/97 -0400, Mary Schweitzer wrote: >Pete Weiss wrote: >> >> |Since there are lists to discuss spam, I apologize for being >> |off-topic here. >> >> Stan's right ... >> >> Abstracted from the SPAM-L FAQ >> >> http://oasis.ot.com/~dmuth/spam-l/ >> > >Stan is right and Stan is wrong. Stan is me and I am Stan, so I'll be adding another 2 cents below. > This is a list for inexperienced >listserv owners as well as all you experienced folks. I deliberately >sent that message thinking that perhaps a lot of us received it, and >wanting to get technical help explaining to the other newbies on the >list how to proceed if you do. I am a semi-newbie; were I a total >newbie that would have freaked the living bejeebers out of me. > >The information about anti-SPAM networks was very useful -- but >it is not off-topic to show newbies the variety in which SPAM can >appear. This is an informational list for people of ALL types of >experience. > >Not everybody would have understood that was a SPAM in the first place. >That was part of the point. > >And I also wondered, though I didn't say, if the SPAM was a result of >being on this list, or my automatic response to requests to join my >owner-subscription lists. Which, I would think, IS germaine to this >list. Mary, You made your post, and someone else identified the thing you got as spam. Then I made my post, which was thus possibly off-topic here. I was merely apologizing in advance for MY OWN post, not for yours or anyone else's. I am sorry if you thought I was somehow criticizing your post... I was not. Stuff happens and you can't always tell if it's list-related or not, and I think it's quite reasonable to ask here. So, if you thought I was somehow trying to criticize, please rest assured that I was not, and please accept my apologies if I wasn't clear. BTW, a couple of friends of mine got the same spam, and at least one of them was missing a few "bejeebers" after receiving it :) Take care, Stan ps - anyone contemplating a subscription to SPAM-L will want to have mail filters... it's a *VERY* busy list. I'm "there" but I had to set my options to INDEX since I just don't have time for the details these days.