Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic

[Al Gilman]

  From: Jason Baker <address@hidden>

  On May 23, E Powell wrote:
  > Hello There,
  > 
  >     Your name has been passed on to us as having an interest in the RMS 
Titanic.
  
  Hmm.  Anyone else starting to find these subscriptions a tad suspicious?
  Starting to look to me like somebody is trying to degrade the list by
  subbing it to as many unrelated lists as possible.
  
  Of course, I could just be paranoid. :)
  
[Al, here...]

You will see by the archive that I did send a letter of complaint
about this one.

I thought about the malicious-third-party angle, but mostly
rejected it as unlikely.

E Powell is clearly behaving as a bad apple.  No reputable list
manager would accept third-party subscriptions.  The abuse of
lists as mailbombs is too well-known.  And this "respond if you
_don't_ want our junk mail" is the standard spam scam language.

On the other hand, E Powell may be an unwitting bad apple
innocently wanting to join forces with fellow Titanic fans, and
having come into posession of a spamming kit without
understanding that it is based on antisocial procedures.

So I throttled the flame-thrower back a little.

--
Al Gilman

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