On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 21:27:09 PM +0900, James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote:
> I am not pleased that writing to the Moderator of the Users List has > landed me with a Spam challenge. James, as a matter of fact, you yourself did this. Cfr this message from the archives, just to name one: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=128967 if you click on the "raw display" link it also show that you sent that message (like this one today) to us...@openoffice.org. Users@openoffice.org is not the moderator. It is the working address of a public mailing list to which you subscribed (as the link above proves). This list has always had public archives of every message, and explicitly declares everything I just said somewhere on the website. This, and the link already posted by another subscriber: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/553681.html prove that, unfortunately, you yourself have posted your own address in public several times in several places. And no, there is no way to remove those pages with your addresses from the Internet. This is a general fact. Even if the managers of Ooo and whirlpool did what you ask: - the pages are mirrored by many other independent websites, which you should hunt one by one - the spammers already have that address in their lists anyway, so why bother? - it is not even certain that showing up in the OOo archives is what got you on some list. If you write to some relative whose computer is infested by a spambot which harvests addresses from incoming email and uses them for spamming, you're toast anyway. Less likely, but possible. You should have been more careful when you read the policy of some online forum or use it. If you're receiving too much spam, you should either stop using that address and be more careful with a new one from now on, or install some good anti-spam system. Best Regards, M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.net -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you: http://digifreedom.net/node/84 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
