Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 18:28:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: GBoydUK@aol.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, gavyb@coolmail.com, hzh@mcn.xidian.edu.cn Subject: Your spam accusation (was: Polite Request) Message-ID: <19990522182818.D69879@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <dfd82e39.2477c894@aol.com>; from GBoydUK@aol.com on Sat, May 22, 1999 at 04:45:08AM -0400 References: <dfd82e39.2477c894@aol.com>
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On Saturday, 22 May 1999 at 4:45:08 -0400, GBoydUK@aol.com wrote: > Dear Sirs > > I have received Unsolicited Bulk E-Mail (UBE) apparently from > yourselves or from one of your direct or indirect customers. Not from FreeBSD-newbies, anyway. And what you attach below is not bulk email, it's a question to a mailing list. It is neither commercial nor bulk. If it's unsolicited, you should establish how it happened. I have just checked the FreeBSD-newbies mailing list, and you are not on it. It's possible that you were, but in that case it would have happened by a two-stage process requiring your explicit agreement to join. > I don't like it and would ask for your cooperation to put a stop to it. > > Most of the UBE I receive looks dishonest to me. If there's anything in the attached message which looks dishonest, you could at least describe this "dishonesty". It looks honest enough to me. I suspect, in fact, that this message is a form letter (can you spell "bulk"?), and you didn't examine this message at all. > I am sure your company isn't like that but you would do well to > avoid using or permitting the same methods as these "spammers" lest > you be tarred with the same brush. > > Also, you may be aware that a growing number of ISPs are taking > to blocking incoming mail from "spam" domains. I don't want that to > happen because I might lose legitimate mail and you might be > inconvenienced. Yes, I can understand this. This is why I block AOL. If you want to reply to me, please send mail from another domain. Please also don't copy the mailing lists (already trimmed in these headers), since we don't like unnecessary mail messages. Greg Lehey > --- Copy of offending material follows --- >> Subj: about fvwm95-2 >> Date: 21/05/99 00:52:28 GMT Daylight Time >> From: hzh@mcn.xidian.edu.cn (HZH) >> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org >> To: newbies@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-newbies) >> >> >> >> dear all, >> >> >> >> I use "tar xfmz fvwm95-2.tgz" to install fvwm95-2; after that, I create >> >> the >> >> file .xinitrc in my home directory. In this file, I write the line >> >> "/usr/src/fvwm95-2/bin/fvwm95-2" to exec the command. But when I login, >> >> it can't run fvwm95-2. The error message is " pls 'brandelf' a file"! >> >> I don't know what's its meaning. pls explain it to me. >> >> >> >> thx. >> >> >> >> hzh -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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