Re: E-mail harassment by c2
At 08:48 PM 4/20/96 -0400, you wrote:
Dear folks at C2,
If people don't ask you to be placed on a mailing list they jolly well don't have to follow *your* instructions to get taken off. [snip]
I think you're missing what happened. Someone subscribed the address for the _cypherpunks_ list to the clueless list. The "welcome to clueless" message got sent to you via the cypherpunks list. Notice the instructions from C2 say:
If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to "Majordomo@c2.org" with the following command in the body of your email message:
unsubscribe clueless cypherpunks@toad.com
The email address there is the cypherpunks list, not yours. The reason you received the second email is that majordomo@c2.org (the address you sent mail to) is not a person -- it's a mail list administering program. Your mail had no command that majordomo recognized, so it sent you the majordomo help file. That's what it's supposed to do. You aren't being harassed by anyone. You aren't on the clueless list. You are on the cyperpunks list -- if you want to unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@toad.com with the words "unsubscribe cypherpunks" (without the quotes) in the body of your message. Rich ______________________________________________________________________ Rich Burroughs richieb@teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~richieb See my Blue Ribbon Page at http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/blueribbon New EF zine "cause for alarm" - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause
OTOH, maybe he's trying to declare himself a candidate :) This is turning into some sort of a weird ponzi scheme - we'll all wind up on "clueless" by virtue of belonging to other lists which have been subscribed to clueless which ... Please attach your name to the bottom of the list, and subscribe your list to clueless ... eventually, the entire 'net will be clueless ... (insert favorite aol-bash here) ;) ---------------------------------------- Rabid Wombat wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org ---------------------------------------- On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, Rich Burroughs wrote:
I think you're missing what happened.
Someone subscribed the address for the _cypherpunks_ list to the clueless list. The "welcome to clueless" message got sent to you via the cypherpunks list. Notice the instructions from C2 say:
If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to "Majordomo@c2.org" with the following command in the body of your email message:
unsubscribe clueless cypherpunks@toad.com
The email address there is the cypherpunks list, not yours.
Now *this* is an interesting denial of service attack on c2's site. (**) (**) Crypto relevance On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Rabid Wombat wrote:
This is turning into some sort of a weird ponzi scheme - we'll all wind up on "clueless" by virtue of belonging to other lists which have been subscribed to clueless which ...
Please attach your name to the bottom of the list, and subscribe your list to clueless ...
eventually, the entire 'net will be clueless ... (insert favorite aol-bash here) ;)
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Rich Burroughs