Re: **** *!

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 03:35:04PM +0800, Guo Rong wrote:

[junk delted]

This mailing list is devoted to lout document formatter.  One has to
explicitly subscribe to the list to receive messages, they are never
sent unsolicited.  Upon subscription request mailing list software
puts the address on the distribution list and sends back a
notification that subscription was successful.  Here's a log entry for
your subscription request:

    subscribe: address@hidden by: address@hidden
        Mon Jan 26 11:57:05 MSK 1998

So either you have willingly subscribed or someone has impersonated
you.  In any case you <address@hidden> should have received
the subscription notification that says, in particular:

| This is an automated subscription mechanism.  For your verification, a
| transcript of the original subscription request is included below.
|
| If the wrong address has been subscribed and you seem to be unable to fix it
| yourself, reply to this message now (quoting it entirely (for diagnostic
| purposes), and of course adding any comments you see fit).

Hmm, in my logs I can see <address@hidden> subscribed to the
list (just 10 seconds before you).  This address looks very much like
a real spammer (so I'm removing it from the list).  May be this can
help you to track real source of spam.

Well, your message was read by at least 200 subscribers some of them
are world-respected software developers.  Spam is a problem for all of
us.  Next time you'd better avoid mindlessly sending such letters lest
you look like a fool.  I hope you will outgrow your childish attitude
soon.

And BTW, if real spammers had received your reply, it would indicated
to them that your address is indeed valid and you would have received
more spam in the future.

I have removed your address from the distribution list.

PS: My apologies to people on the list.  I'm reluctant to switch to
    manual subscription but I'm beginning to consider this as an
    option.

SY, Uwe
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