Hi Suzie,
I appreciate your advice and yes, it could have been someone angry with the list
although there was no prior
indication of this.
I believe that this happened due to an error. Apparently, egroups has been having
problems in the last
little while and it could be that the error spread.
I informed their abuse line straight away and contacted the owners of both lists.
As an individual it is not so difficult to do something about it but with a list there
are a lot of people
acting independently and things tend to go on a little longer. ;-)
Trudy
Frac wrote:
> Trudy,
>
> This is a very common method for people who are angry with the list
> rationale/ethos, moderators, or some listmember to use to get even and cause
> trouble. Be thankful it has only been two illegal signups thus far; it could
> have been much worse.
>
> May I suggest that if this happens in the future, that the *first* thing you
> do right away is go to the website where the offending list's messages
> derive from and where you can subscribe and unsubscribe to that list.
> Immediately enter the Recoznet2 address with a request it be unsubbed. You
> can do this at the first whiff of trouble and miss the fun of annoyed
> subscribers on your list as well as the clogging of *your* resources with
> superfluous messages.
>
> You may need to do this several times until you outlast your antagonist.
> Your other protection might be to filter addresses and for every address
> this list is subscribed to, set up filter in your email software to bounce
> back the mail coming from the offending site.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Suzie
>
> >from the radical scientist list on egroups. Ian Pitchford has just emailed
> me to
> >say that he has taken recoznet2 off his address list for the group.
> >He doesn't know who signed us up and he finds it all very strange.
> >
> >Once again, please don't answer these list invitations by hitting reply.
> >Substitute your own address for the list address before answering.
> >
> >With any luck we can go back to normal after today.
> >
> >Trudy
>
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