Date : Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:42:23 -0000
From : cwhill@... (Colin)
Subject: spam through bbc list
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Smith" <gasssmith@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:45 AM
Subject: [BBC-Micro] spam through bbc list
> Hi
>
> I'm just catching up on recent postings.
>
> Categorical statements have been made that
> a) the "enhancement" spam was not coming via the list
> b) e-mail addresses in the archive are made unreadable.
>
> The monthly (private) archive I had obtained every few weeks, up to 25th
October, by sending a "get" request to majordomo@... DOES contain
the full sender's address for each posting.
> And it DOES contain the spam which was being complained of.
>
> After that date the (public) archive obtained from
http://lists.cloud9.co.uk/pipermail/bbc-micro/ has the "at sign" in the
sender's address changed to " at ".
>
> So, if the spam was not coming via the list, why did it appear in the
archive?
>
> I am aware that the archive is (or was) also available to all and sundry
via a web page, but it is the cumulative file mentioned above that I am
specifically referring to.
>
> Assuming that everything in said archive was sent on to each and every
member it would surely be useful to know why some members' e-mail clients
did not see the spam at all.
> The only explanation I can think of is that some ISPs are dropping spam,
which I would find disturbing.
>
> Finally, many thanks to James for his continuing work for the list.
>
> Cheers
> Geoff Smith
>
>
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Well I still haven't had any of the offending emails at all to date.
I'm not going to even try and explain why some have and some haven't but I
certainly know that my ISP does not delete anything at all from my mailbox.
Their Spam filter only marks suspect emails by adding the word Spam to the
subject line so that I may peruse them and decide if I want to delete them
myself.
I could guess that someone reading the archives or trawling them via a
program of some sort may have selected some for possible Spam and, as I do
not post that often, missed me off their list.
I haven't looked at the archives but it does seem very odd that not everyone
got them. As far as I know, I get everything that is posted to the list - or
at least I haven't noticed any missing by way of replies without an original
mail.
I really don't know enough about the workings of the list to make anything
other than a "best guess", sorry.
If anyone would like to post the dates that they received them and the
subject, I will happily check all my messages in my own archives (I don't
often have a clear out) just in case I have missed something (marked it as
"read" without looking at it or similar).
Colin Hill