On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Gora Mohanty <g...@sarai.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:10:57 +0530 > Devendra Gupta <dev29...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Changing the password will not solve this probem because these mails are > > coming from invitation AT mydailyflog DOT com > > by the name of Hariharan. These mails dont have any relation with > > Hariharan's PC. You can find if you see the detail of the mail. > > I guess Hariharan might have made account in that site by some invitation > > and while make account that site has imported the contact list of Hariharan > > cleverly that generally happen in all 3rd class spam community sites. Now > > that site is sending spam messages to all that contacts by the name of > > Hariharan. In my view mailing list administrators should add "invitation AT > > mydailyflog DOT com" in spam list o solve the problem. > [...] > > In my opinion, the above offers Hariharan far too much of a > cop-out, and he himself tries to absolve himself of part of > the responsibility by saying that he did not know how this > happened. > > While I quite believe that he might not be aware of of how exactly > it happened, it is clear that he, or possibly someone else with > access to his account, (a) signed up on the scummy, unethical, > spamming site, and (b) exposed his mail addresses to them. In my > opinion, the resulting spam messages to the list are grounds for > the action being taken, and I still think that it should result > in automatic moderation on this list. Intended or not, such an > act should have consequences for the poster. > > Regards, > Gora >
Instead of having all kind of threads on such topics again and again, a simple solution is to filter out/block such mails. Moderator/s can easily apply simple rules to the list postings. I think for most of the mailing lists, it works well. /me looking for moderator/s action. -Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! Have you tried the new "FREE" Devanagari (Marathi) font family "Aksharyogini" we have released? Please get it from http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.sudhanwa.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
