On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:07:47 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
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grammatim@...> wrote:
> Did you mean to send this to an individual?
>
> It appears that some spambot has discovered how to override yahoo's
> "protections" and post a message to a yahoo group. Was it propagated to
> some list recipients?
Fwiw, Peter's suspicions are likely to be correct. A list I'm (relatively)
most active on, <
howthingswork@yahoogroups.com>, has about a message a
week that's off-topic. The list owner makes a bit of fun about it
(sometimes), after canceling the new "member", and then apologizes to the
list. It seems, most unfortunately, that a list owner has another burden;
the vandals are at the gate.
Using Opera e-mail's search on [thememorydeba4] didn't select any other
messages besides Seshat's and Peter's, for a period from a month ago to
the present; perhaps Seshat canceled it before it went out?
Internet Version 6, if non-academics and the general public ever use it or
get access to it, should have better defenses, afaik.
Best regards to all,
--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
Commentator at
Howthingswork@yahoogroups.com
Micro-blog: A book to watch for -- _The Poor
Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story_