> Just a brief appeal to any of you out there who might be thinking of
> setting up a mailing list with the help of EGROUPS.COM. Please don't.
>
> In fact if you are adverse to spam, you may just want to do what I
> have just done here, and blacklist the entire egroups.com domain,
> either at your router or in your mail server control files, so as
> to avoid being placed on various EGROUPS.COM spam lists without your
> consent. (See example below.)
>
> Seriously, this is SOOOOOOOOO lame. These people are pretending to
> be professional list administrators, and not only are they spamming
> but they apparently can't be bothered with little things like, oh,
> CONFIRMING list subscriptions before they finalize them.
>
You are absolutely correct, and I am embarassed by the mistake. When
people want to transfer their lists over to ONElist/eGroups, we have
mechanisms in place where a human has to verify that the list is legit
before the transfer can go through. That obviously didn't happen in this
case, and we're investigating what happened.
On a related note, as part of the merger of ONElist and eGroups, we're
implementing new strict anti-spamming measures across the entire
service, including pro-active deletion of potential spam lists, more
human interaction to prevent abuse of our service, and a beefed up
customer support group.
If anyone has a problem with either ONElist or eGroups, which you are
not able to resolve, please feel free to contact Kate Shambarger, our
Director of Customer Support, directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Mark
