From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 00:00:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C96A16A400 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from breath@unix.net) Received: from mtsnet.ru (mts3.mtsnet.ru [213.87.0.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F4313C457 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from breath@unix.net) Received: from [84.17.224.22] (HELO breathpoint.home) by mtsnet.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.1) with SMTP id 556009; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:00:13 +0400 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:52:36 +0400 From: Yuri Grebenkin To: Kevin Kinsey Message-Id: <20070411025236.275f40de.breath@unix.net> In-Reply-To: <461BCB47.4080504@daleco.biz> References: <76BA0043-1D47-42FB-AB77-BB6C7A69E792@mac.com> <461BCB47.4080504@daleco.biz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.6.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Erroneous delivery of list e-mail (was Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:22 -0000 On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:37:11 -0500 Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Steven Johnson wrote: > > Hello, > > I am receiving your email because of a screw-up in Gmail. I have no > > recourse > > but to mark your email as spam and delete it. > > Gmail has been unresponsive in correcting the problem. > > Mr.SDJohnson@Gmail.com > > > > Hi, Steven.... > > It *might* be a screwup in GMail. However, I have circumstantial > evidence that suggests it may be otherwise. I hate to bother you, > but, in the interest of several people who may be affected, could > you send the full source of an e-mail you received from the FreeBSD > list directly to me, and not to the list? Also, if you have some > convincing evidence that it's GMail, are we allowed to know about it? > > I'd like everyone to note that I'm merely curious; this is the > fourth person in 24 hours to say "why in the world am I getting > these e-mails?" or "please unsubscribe me", including 2 G-mail users, > an AIM.com/AOL user, and one who's at/near Abacus America/Aplus in > San Diego. > > I'm copying postmaster@ as well, although I doubt it's his problem, > but maybe a "heads up" would be a Good Thing(tm). My best guess so > far is a messed-up forwarding rule or alias/virtuser somewhere (and > it's a big, big world), or an malicious or incompetent person with > an axe to grind. > > To those of you who are receiving these messages, perhaps Mr. Johnson's > recourse is currently your best option. Also, please note that I am > simply an interested individual, and do not represent the FreeBSD Project, > G-Mail, AOL/AIM, Abacus/A+, the Teamsters/AFL/CIO, CIA/NSA, KGB, Zdnet, > , Yahoo!, Pravda, New York Times, etc., etc. > > Kevin Kinsey Haha! That's funny for sure. :) Supposing there are not too much people who can't unsubscribe silently there must be many more others receiving the list accidentally. On other side, it's not a huge victim "public" because we'd get much more complaints. Anyway, if someone will get some clue, let me know. Yuri Grebenkin