On Sunday 25 July 2004 10:30, John W. Holmes wrote:

> The thing is, though, none of these people have actually signed up for
> this service as far as I can tell. 

Some previous posts imply that some people *did* use spamcease, my anti-spam 
measures protects me from seeing these "Please Verify Your Message" messages.

> It's like there's a spamcease bot
> signed up to the list and is sending out these "notices" to people that
> post to the list saying that some random address has signed up for it.
> It's saying the list is signed up and people are receiving messages
> saying themselves are signed up when they know they haven't.

If it's an email harvesting scam then I think it's rather over elaborate. 

> I really wish we could get an active admin on the list that would react
> to these sorts of things. I'd volunteer, but I don't think anyone cares
> besides the people actually on the list.

If individuals are using spamcease then there's very little a list admin can 
do short of chucking them off the list. BUt if it's a bot that's subscribed 
to the list then yes throw it off.

> All that being said, I just trash these, anyhow. :)

Exactly.

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