On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:20:41AM -0600, Ed Summers wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:50:05AM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: > > Has anyone encountered targeted spam from perl4lib or oss4lib posts? > > I've posted numerous times to perl4lib, and once to oss4lib. Just now, > > I suddenly got a spam for "BowkerLink", which submits to Ulrich's > > Periodicals Directory, something right in line with my earlier > > questions. Besides friends/IM, I've not publicly stated my > > research into cataloging, so I can only suspect it's an > > incredibly odd coincidence, or there are some asshole > > lurkers on the list. ;) > > Spam is a global problem, and not something isolated to this list. As a > seasoned Perl user you are no doubt aware of how easy it is to scrape email > addresses from the webpages. While this list isn't moderated (emails > reviewed before posting), we are a polite and friendly bunch. Let's not > start calling people names. > > If you have any concerns with the way the perl4lib list is being > managed please contact Ask Bjorn Hansen at perl.org (ask at > develooper.com).
I'll second Ed's remark on list decorum. In the three or four years I "ran" the list, I was only once ever tempted to intervene, and that was due to nothing more heinous than an off-topic thread around the holidays, which actually took care of itself. That fact speaks to the character of the list and its members, whom I think we owe the presumption of innocence. I daresay Morbus Iff didn't have them in mind. However, I think Morbus Iff's point was the targeted nature of the spam. That really is an odd coincidence, and I have a hard time imagining that Bowker emails ads at random. I can't recall having gotten anything from them myself, at least not in recent years. Chuck
