Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread Mike Smith
I keep getting emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking me to confirm the emails I send to them to make sure I'm not a spammer. I see a few things wrong with this: 1. Look who's talking... *cough* spammer. 2. It's really annoying and IMO they should be banned from the mailing list. 3. I don't shop at

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread Leonid Grinberg
This has happened to me as well... It is really quite similar to someone setting a vacation autoresponse. If their email provider doesn't realize that it is a list, anytime anyone sends an email, they will get the autoresponse. Banning someone from this list may be a little harsh... perhaps the

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 March 2006 09:13, Mike Smith wrote: I keep getting emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking me to confirm the emails I send to them to make sure I'm not a spammer. I see a few things wrong with this: 1. Look who's talking... *cough* spammer. 2. It's really annoying and IMO they should

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mike Smith wrote: I keep getting emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] asking me to confirm the emails I send to them to make sure I'm not a spammer. I see a few things wrong with this: 1. Look who's talking... *cough* spammer. 2. It's really annoying and IMO they should be

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 09:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: 4. Since no subscriber, such as me, has access to this list, and since the list manager of one of the effected lists, debian-user is just one of many similarly effected, has already tried this WITHOUT getting a response so he could

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread cga
Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 09:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: 4. Since no subscriber, such as me, has access to this list, and since the list manager of one of the effected lists, debian-user is just one of many similarly effected, has already tried this WITHOUT getting a

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread Mike Smith
oops, why do i keep doing that...On 3/18/06, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My procmail rule is: -- :0: * ^From: AntiSpam UOL .*@uol.com.br /dev/null -- I don't use procmail - I check my email through Gmail's web interface. Incidentally I made a blog entry

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread David Kirchner
On 3/18/06, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. There is no way short of a customized subject message sent individually to every name on the mailing list, one at a time, FROM a mailng list user, waiting each time to see if it generates this response. This seems like the most reasonable

Fwd: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread Mike Smith
That and make Gmail stop trying to send messages to other people and not the list.-- Forwarded message --From: Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Mar 18, 2006 12:16 PMSubject: Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.To: David Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I just managed to get

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/18/06, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That and make Gmail stop trying to send messages to other people and not the list. I've requested that feature through Gmail's online form. Have you? The more users who request the feature, the more likely it will reach their threshold for

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread John Hasler
Gene Heskett wrote: 3. There is no way short of a customized subject message sent individually to every name on the mailing list, one at a time, FROM a mailng list user, waiting each time to see if it generates this response. They have done something similar to no avail. Perhaps real

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread Hex Star
I figured out the report spam being grayed out issue...when the UOL email is in the gmail trash, click the email, then at the top click the More Actions... menu, from there report spam is not grayed out and you can click it to rightfully report that email as spam (which I will be doing for now on)

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 18 March 2006 06:13, Mike Smith wrote: I keep getting emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking me to confirm the emails I send to them to make sure I'm not a spammer. I see a few things wrong with this: 1. Look who's talking... *cough* spammer. 2. It's really annoying and IMO they

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-18 Thread Mike Smith
'that' being sending messages to people instead of the list. I've requested a fix for that from Gmail :)On 3/18/06, cga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Mike Smith wrote: oops, why do i keep doing that... No offence meant... just that the portuguese and brazilians I've knowndon't like being mistaken for