[linux-audio-dev] [Fwd: Dobber - one of your users spams our mailing list]

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Subject: [linux-audio-dev] [Fwd: Dobber - one of your users spams our mailing list]
From: Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2001 - 15:56:31 EET


here's some fun piece about the lamer who set up this spam-bot
against lad.
i turned the problem over to his postmaster, which he seemed to have
taken personally :)

Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>
> Twinkles wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:55:14PM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> > > dear postmaster !
> >
> > Thank you for your email to my postmaster. I have a few pertinent
> > suggestions for the mailing list which I hope you will pass on to the
> > owner.
> >
> > - Users only take action when their requests go unanswered for long
> > periods of time. Ask the list admin to answer email instead of ignoring
> > it
>
> 1) the admin of this list does his job in his free time.
> 2) it is your responsibility to keep the subscription request, in
> which you can find the cancelling routine.
> 3) if you have problems, or this routine fails, this mail gives the
> hint to write to owner-linux-audio-dev.
> 4) if for some reason the owner fails to respond, you can post a
> POLITE message to the list asking for help. like "[OT] need help to
> unsubscribe". ever thought about that ?
> 5) under FUCKING NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS IT ACCEPTABLE TO SPAM HUNDREDS
> OF USERS WOLRDWIDE WITH YOUR LITTLE PROBLEM. yes, i'm shouting.
> this is mail abuse, and i will report this to the postmaster in
> charge. it's not my job to educate users of other systems about very
> basic conduct on the net.
>
> > - Place unsubscribe instructions as a signature on every email.
> > Alternatively, place an X-unsubscribe and an X-website header in each
> > email.
>
> might be a helpful suggestion; even more so if you hadn't annoyed
> the shit out of everybody before.
>
> > - If you see messages bouncing to the list over and over, find out why
>
> if you cause a bounce, it's your responsibility to fix it. having
> mail bounce back to lists out of sheer cluelessness is a sad thing
> we'll have to live with, but deliberately setting up a bouce bot
> just because one is not able to unsubscribe is not worthy of beings
> equipped with a neocortex.
>
> > - Instead of "dobbing" to a postmaster, contact the user first to see what
> > the real problem is
>
> my dictionary does not define "dobber" (my native language is
> german), and the online webster says it's a small water bird. not
> very likely. from the context, i can guess it means "cowardly taking
> something over to authorities instead of dealing with the offending
> person directly."
>
> well, normally i don't feel obliged to deal with people who
> blackmail me. having earned your disrespect, well, i guess i can
> take that.
> you sure have mine.

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Jörn Nettingsmeier     
home://Kurfürstenstr.49.45138.Essen.Germany      
phone://+49.201.491621
http://www.folkwang.uni-essen.de/~nettings/


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