Hookuh spamming
Brian MacWhinney
macw at cmu.edu
Mon Aug 26 22:24:34 UTC 2002
Dear Gabriella,
I'm afraid I have no real suggestions on how to avoid this spam, and no
way to guarantee that such spamming might not occur again in the future. I
think that the way this works is that someone actually subscribes to
info-childes by hand, then users the ListServ software to download the
membership list, and then unsubscribes. As I monitored the subscriptions, I
saw the hookuhs.thc address and thought it looked fishy. Short of stepping
in and moderating the list, I have no option in the software to block
specific postings from "members."
Interestingly, I did not receive 7 copies of this. I think I received
two. Maybe you are on a couple of other lists which the Hookuh spammers
were able to retrieve?
--Brian MacWhinney
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