It seems that we have a new user among us and that messages sent to him or her generate some sort of anti-spam verification request. People are invited to click on a link and confirm your message. They say: "When you confirm, this message and all future messages you send will automatically be accepted."
This can't be serious. I understand that spam is annoying, but if you choose to use that kind of thing, it is *YOUR* burden to make sure that you have the technical conditions required to receive messages and adjust your mailbox so that it won't cause any trouble to anyone. You can't make obstacles and expect that the rest of the world will take them off for you. This kind of mechanism became very common in my country a few months ago. Users getting yelled at and kicked out of lists became a pretty common thing too. When someone uses those automatic replies, a copy gets sent to each and every single list member, of which the absolute majority has no interest whatsoever in replying, clicking or confirming anything. Alas, one more unwelcome message in their mailboxes, not a bit different from actual spam. If the list has 1,000 members (and we do!), that user alone is fighting spam by happily giving out 1,000 copies of something that is likely to annoy 900 people in the most optimistic prognosis, *every time* that *anyone* posts to the list. I don't know who contrived such system and what these people were on when they came up with such idea. I understand that spam is annoying, but I am sick of these lousy ideas that think it is a good idea to fight the problem by pestering hundreds or thousands or even millions of people who have no accountability whatsoever for the original problem. So I have to inform everyone in the list that any user that sends automatic replies to the entire list will be put in no-mail status until the problem seems to have been fixed in their mailboxes. If the user insists, will be told to leave. If you think you have the right to protect your mailbox from annoyances, I agree. I also have the right to protect the list and 1,000 mailboxes. Thank you. -- Luciano Espirito Santo Santos, SP - Brasil ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/JV_rlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> **** EDIT YOUR POSTINGS !!!! **** Please remove as much as possible from original messages before replying to them. ________________________________________________ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
