Re: [gentoo-user] PayPal® UPDATE TEAM

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 16:22 -0500, PayPal Inc. wrote:
   

 
 Dear valued PayPal® member : 
 
 
 
 It has come to our attention that your PayPal® account information
 needs to be 
 updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account
 and to 
 reduce the instance of fraud on our website.  If you could please take
 5-10 minutes 
 out of your online experience and update your personal records you
 will not run into 
 any future problems with the online service.
 
 However, failure to update your records will result in account
 suspension. 
 Please update your records on or before December 18, 2005. 
 
 Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal® session will
 not be 
 interrupted and will continue as normal. 
 
 To update your PayPal® records click on the following link: 
 
 http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run 
 
  
 
 Thank You.  
 PayPal® UPDATE TEAM  
 
 Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal® will 
 periodically send you information about site changes and
 enhancements. 
 
 Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any
 questions. 
 http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy
 -outside
 
  
Wow!  A cross-posted spam-thing!  I found this one somewhat difficult to
take seriously before, but when it's cross-posted I find it downright
hilarious!  While this is amusing shouldn't robin.gentoo.org have some
kind of spam filter that can filter out mail with the string Paypal in
the Subject line?

-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PayPal® UPDATE TEAM

[Chris White]

On Sunday 18 December 2005 07:39, Michael Sullivan wrote:

 Wow!  A cross-posted spam-thing!  I found this one somewhat difficult to
 take seriously before, but when it's cross-posted I find it downright
 hilarious!  While this is amusing shouldn't robin.gentoo.org have some
 kind of spam filter that can filter out mail with the string Paypal in
 the Subject line?

No, because the same system that filters list email filters dev email.  While 
I don't use paypal, other devs might to handle shipping of hardware or 
whatever.  That said, they probably don't want PayPal stripped from the 
subject line.  As with most large scale email systems, there tends to be a 
you're on your own, you handle it aspect to filtering.  This prevents false 
positives from hitting the filter and someone missing an important email.  

Chris White


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