As "owner" of the MCG discussion list, in the last 24 hours I have received
notification of two messages bounced back because they were not from
subscribers. In both cases, fairly soon afterwards, I received personal
messages from the same addresses, and they consisted of SPAM - irritating
advertising material sent out to millions of e-mail addresses garnered by
any means possible. This happens from time to time, and as a preventative
measure I have turned off the ability for non-members to search the list
of members of this list via mailbase.
If anyone gets spam from [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask], please
ignore it. Do not respond in any way whatsoever - such action simply
confirms to the spammer that you have a valid e-mail address. Any
irritation caused should soon go away if everyone does this. My apologies
to anyone who is pestered like this as a result of membership of the MCG
list, and to anyone who is inconvenienced by the action I have taken to
try to stop its recurrence.
One of the options that mailbase offers is for the list to be "moderated"
- i.e. all messages would have to be approved by me before appearing
in your mailbox. I am reluctant to take that step unless there is a real
need, but if anyone has strong opinions about it, please let me know.
Thanks.
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Ian
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Ian O. Morrison, Scottish Museums Documentation Officer &
SCRAN Data Co-ordinator, National Museums of Scotland.
http://www2.scran.ac.uk/staff/ianm/index.htm
-The past sure is tense- Don Van Vliet
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