Thanks for taking the time to clarify the situation. It appears that my response did not however convince the judge or jury on this manner and I've been bannished from the list.
Rather interesting development. Britt... > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael A. Peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 5:20 PM > To: Britt Johnston > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Nusphere is spamming me > > > I would like to offer my very deepet apologies. > This is what happened- > > About a year ago or so (maybe longer) when NuSphere was new I tried their > product and did not want to use my regular e-mail address to register, so > I used my username@host e-mail address on my linux box. > > In fact, it was a completely different box than I am using now, but the IP > address was the same. > I never used that e-mail address for anything. > > About three weeks ago I installed a clean system and then about a week > ago, the Sylpheed gtk+ mail client. > I was completely unaware that Sylpheed also incorporates the local system > mailbox in its inbox. No one has an e-mail to my username@host address in > that time. Until Nusphere did. > > Looking at the headers of the mail I got, though, that is the e-mail > address to which the e-mail from Nusphere was sent. > > They did not steal my new e-mail address. > > This is what the header of the message says: > > Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from pscgate.progress.com (pscgate.progress.com [192.77.186.1]) > by c36988-a.ptbrg1.sfba.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id > fAJMwtg28381 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 > 14:58:57 -0800 > > That is what happened. > My deepest apologies to NuSphere and the MySQL list for this mix up. > I jumped to a conclusion I should not have. > > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:48:24 -0500 > "Britt Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > > > Michael, et al: > > > > I want to assure everyone that there is no attempt to spam anyone on > > this email list, this email list is a valuable community service and > > not to be abused. Regardless, I'm sorry that anyone even has that > > impression. If you have any concerns after reading this please > > feel free to contact me directly. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
