Re: plaugue of unsubscribes

At 12:01 PM 4/18/96 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Alex Strasheim wrote:
>
>> I've started sending mail to postmasters when I get one of those "take me
>> off your list!" messages.
>[snip]
>
>See John's message about the forged subscribes.  It sounds like these
>folks may have never used a mailing list and didn't want to.  Can't really
>blame them for being upset at receiving hundreds of pieces of email that
>they didn't ask for.
>
>What still confuses me is the number of people who asked to be
>"unsubscrived."  Seems like an odd coincidence that all those folks would
>miss the B key.  Some had done it severeal times in the same message.  I
>wonder if they were totally set up -- if they got mail telling them to
>"unsubscrive."  Some people's idea of fun boggles me...
>
>Rich
>
The firewalls list got a bunch of "signoff" requests over the last few days.
Same gag I'd wager. The Firewalls list owner said he unsubscribed over 200
people who appeared to have been falsely subscribed.


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dwl@hnc.com

Zippity do da, zippity ah, my oh my what a wonderful day.
Ya right, and here I am without time to finish a cup of coffee.

If you haven't already deleted the "unsuscrive" messages, take a look at
the headers. I suspect that someone is using a browser to forge e-mail
(very easy to do, bit very obvious where it came from) A lot of these have
come from the same address. 

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Rabid Wombat
wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org
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> >What still confuses me is the number of people who asked to be
> >"unsubscrived."  Seems like an odd coincidence that all those folks would
> >miss the B key.  Some had done it severeal times in the same message.  I
> >wonder if they were totally set up -- if they got mail telling them to
> >"unsubscrive."  Some people's idea of fun boggles me...
> >
> >Rich