Involuntary mailing lists

[jerith]

I received an email today from a mailing list to which I did not subscribe. It was a Christian evangelistic email that started as follows:

From: goodword@niconet.za.net

Comments

[rimspace]

Why not just set your mailserver up to explicitly and verbosely bounce all messages from it? Back to the list itself? If they are so desperate to have you on their mailing list....

[jerith]

Mostly because that would have required some effort on my part and at least partly because it would have been rude. I was considering something similar as an escalation tactic, however.

The point is now moot, since Nico emailed me with a log of the list being deleted and thanks for complaining about it. (Yes, the web interface is gone as well.) I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it was a customer of his who set up the list rather than himself. ;-)

[westyx]

Bravo! Best bitch about spam to the domain owner ever!

[southernmyst]

Bravo, and glad to hear it's been resolved rather than ignored :-)

[chalain]

HAHAHA! Brilliant!

[ron2k]

Heehee. :)

I'm still resisting the urge to burst out laughing in the office, five minutes later...