Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-18 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 17.05.2012 16:20, schrieb Timo Sirainen: On 17.5.2012, at 16.46, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-05-17 9:38 AM, Bill Cole dovecot-20110...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: A spammer claiming to be 'Tim Saarela tim.saar...@dovecot.fi' is sending out a pitch for Enterprise Level Support for

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-05-17 7:02 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Consider this saga a learning experience, but don't fret over it, and certainly don't lose any sleep over it. It's not 'that' big a deal. We all still adore you for this fantastic mail server you've so graciously provided us.

[Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Bill Cole
A spammer claiming to be 'Tim Saarela tim.saar...@dovecot.fi' is sending out a pitch for Enterprise Level Support for Dovecot. The address of mine which he hit is only ever used for this mailing list, so it is clear that whatever the mechanism, this list is being harvested for commercial

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-05-17 9:38 AM, Bill Cole dovecot-20110...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: A spammer claiming to be 'Tim Saarela tim.saar...@dovecot.fi' is sending out a pitch for Enterprise Level Support for Dovecot. The address of mine which he hit is only ever used for this mailing list, so it is clear

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread dovecot-20120517
On 17 May 2012, at 9:46, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-05-17 9:38 AM, Bill Cole dovecot-20110...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: A spammer claiming to be 'Tim Saarela tim.saar...@dovecot.fi' is sending out a pitch for Enterprise Level Support for Dovecot. The address of mine which he hit is only

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 17.5.2012, at 16.46, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-05-17 9:38 AM, Bill Cole dovecot-20110...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: A spammer claiming to be 'Tim Saarela tim.saar...@dovecot.fi' is sending out a pitch for Enterprise Level Support for Dovecot. The address of mine which he hit is

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.05.2012 16:20, schrieb dovecot-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com: On 17 May 2012, at 9:46, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-05-17 9:38 AM, Bill Cole dovecot-20110...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: A spammer claiming to be 'Tim Saarela tim.saar...@dovecot.fi' is sending out a pitch for

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Giles Coochey
On 17/05/2012 15:24, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.05.2012 16:20, schrieb dovecot-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com: On 17 May 2012, at 9:46, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-05-17 9:38 AM, Bill Coledovecot-20110...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: A spammer claiming to be 'Tim

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 17.5.2012, at 17.25, Giles Coochey wrote: And he could do with re-posting his email, as I don't appear to have it in my archive. The list included only .com addresses, with gmail/yahoo/etc removed. I'm sure Tim will be happy to send you the email if you ask it from him. :)

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-05-17 10:20 AM, dovecot-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: On 17 May 2012, at 9:46, Charles Marcus wrote: Tim is working closely with Timo, and I'm sure got Timo's permission to send that email to list subscribers. I subscribed to the Dovecot Users mailing list, not Whatever spam

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Dennis Guhl
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:56:50AM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-05-17 10:20 AM, dovecot-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: On 17 May 2012, at 9:46, Charles Marcus wrote: Tim is working closely with Timo, and I'm sure got Timo's permission to send that email to list subscribers.

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Giles Coochey
On 17/05/2012 16:20, Dennis Guhl wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:56:50AM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-05-17 10:20 AM, dovecot-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: On 17 May 2012, at 9:46, Charles Marcus wrote: Tim is working closely with Timo, and I'm sure got Timo's permission to

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Spyros Tsiolis
I hear people complaining about Timos' effort to try and make a profit out of his idea. Maybe these people would prefer for people like Timo to not announce anything at all and do this without informing anyone ? My take on this (if anyone is interested in my opinion) is that Timo should be

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-05-17 11:20 AM, Dennis Guhl d...@dguhl.org wrote: I did not received this mail so I can't comment on the appearance but I would not be happy to receive any unrequested commercial offers, irrelevant which form it comes along. It was a simple *notification* email, letting people know the

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 17 May 2012, at 10:56, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-05-17 10:20 AM, dovecot-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: On 17 May 2012, at 9:46, Charles Marcus wrote: Tim is working closely with Timo, and I'm sure got Timo's permission to send that email to list subscribers. I subscribed to

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 17 May 2012, at 10:20, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 17.5.2012, at 16.46, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-05-17 9:38 AM, Bill Cole dovecot-20110...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: A spammer claiming to be 'Tim Saarela tim.saar...@dovecot.fi' is sending out a pitch for Enterprise Level Support for

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Dennis Guhl
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 04:36:07PM +0100, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: I hear people complaining about Timos' effort to try and make a profit out of his idea. The complains are not about the intention to make profit but about the way of costumer acquisition. Maybe these people would prefer for

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Dennis Guhl
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 04:33:30PM +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: [..] [sarcasm on] No, I think we should lock Tim Timo up and force Timo to eat lentils while he codes his IMAP server for us. It's incredibly astounding that he should even need to be involved in a business where he makes money

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Douglas Mortensen
I personally didn't mind a one-time notice from the dev's team that that are now offering paid commercial support. What if I WANTED it? I felt like it was a courtesy email from them to let me know that it's available. If those emails continue unsolicited, then it may start to feel like spam to

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread C. Bensend
I was surprised that directly contacting people worked at all, but since it has I thought I'd allow it and hope it wouldn't piss off too many people.. There won't be more than that one mail, which you're free to just ignore. If we get enough funding we can hire more people to work on

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2012-05-17 11:48 AM, C. Bensend be...@bennyvision.com wrote: However, I would prefer that it went to the list, instead of individually to the list members. That's the only part of this I didn't care for. Actually, I thought it did go to the list... Yeah, ok, now I can see a *little*

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Dennis Guhl
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:47:23AM -0600, Douglas Mortensen wrote: I personally didn't mind a one-time notice from the dev's team that that are now offering paid commercial support. What if I WANTED it? There might be a lot of people who did not mind one offlist contact to a list address, but

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Jeff Kletsky
Even with good intent the message in question is clearly in violation of CAN-SPAM and Cal. Bus. Prof. Code Sec. 17529, of which the sender was informed of when my server was accessed. It was very clearly an electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/17/2012 9:45 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: The list included only .com addresses, with gmail/yahoo/etc removed. I'm sure Tim will be happy to send you the email if you ask it from him. :) But not all .com's. I didn't receive such an email. Which means you sat down and spent some amount of

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread David Benfell
On 05/17/2012 11:56 AM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: But I still think that it was merely an issue of announcing it rather than gathering data from the list. First, that (assuming I understand correctly) the message was apparently sent by means other than the list suggests that a list of

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/17/2012 3:19 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 17.5.2012, at 22.56, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/17/2012 9:45 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: The list included only .com addresses, with gmail/yahoo/etc removed. I'm sure Tim will be happy to send you the email if you ask it from him. :) But not all

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Noel Butler
It wasn't sent to the list, it was direct, therefore it IS spam On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 16:24 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: well, but what is exactly your problem with people offering professional support for dovecot which is ON-TOPIC if this are not 20 mails each day? signature.asc

Re: [Dovecot] BEWARE: This list is being harvested for leads

2012-05-17 Thread Noel Butler
On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 11:42 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: On 17 May 2012, at 10:56, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-05-17 10:20 AM, dovecot-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: On 17 May 2012, at 9:46, Charles Marcus wrote: Tim is working closely with Timo, and I'm sure got Timo's permission