[OS X TeX] junk

[Sylvan Jacques]

I hate to waste bandwidth even talking about this, but
I received almost 1000 junk messages. Good thing I separate
out my mailing list stuff, as I had to delete it all.

Count me in on any possible action against these people.

Van
--- Mark LaPlante <laplante at mac.com> wrote:

> Since those responsible have wasted much of our time and resources, 
> perhaps they should make a hefty donation to TUG as remuneration.
> 
> I was fortunate to be working all night, so I could keep deleting the 
> messages via .Mac webmail (no access to set a rule). Otherwise, I would 
> have likely lost legitimate email due to exceeding my storage quota.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Aug 25, 2004, at 7:32 AM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
> 
> >
> > 	I'm getting them too and I think it's a very serious problem: my 
> > email service is based on the bandwidth used per month, and only 
> > between last night and this morning I've received almost 500 (yes, 
> > five hundred!) messages from this obnoxious source! Needless to say, 
> > this is causing my service to overflow rapidly, since I also 
> > participate in many other mailing lists.
> >
> > 	I know I've been pretty quiet on this list for a long while now, so I 
> > might not be the best person to request anything, but I do read it 
> > constantly and I am being affected by this problem; so I'd like to 
> > request the blocking of this source, this "person", immediately at the 
> > server level, some type of permanent ban from the list, because this 
> > is really insulting! Whoever is producing this messages should be more 
> > careful with his/her spam filters... if he/she is not considerate with 
> > us and doesn't care about flooding us like this, then why should we 
> > care about him/her at all? 500 messages in a single night is just more 
> > than anyone can take!!
> >
> > 	So please, list admins, don't let this problem grow more than it 
> > already has, thank you very much!
> >
> >
> > 		Juan
> >
> > On Aug 25, 2004, at 2:17 AM, Kenny Pregnell wrote:
> >
> >> It everbody getting the mail "garbage" or is it just something wrong 
> >> with me....
> >>
> >> Kenny Pregnell
> >>
> >> Centre for Quantum Computer Technology,
> >> Department of Physics,
> >> University of Queensland,
> >> St. Lucia, QLD 4072
> >> Australia.
> >>
> >> Email:     pregnell at physics.uq.edu.au
> >> Fax:        +61 7 3365 1214
> >> Phone:   +61 7 3346 9119
> >>
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