Re: Fwd: IMPORTANT: Please Verify Your Message

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. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* All this time I've been VIEWING a RUSSIAN MIDGET SODOMIZE a HOUSECAT! */