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[Yelena]

Dear colleagues,

The message headed "Cultural news" was sent to Slavic & East European
Languages and Literature list only once from an official e-mail address:
msefolk at russianexpedition.net

I am very amazed that some of you have received it "a dozen times in the
last week, each with a slightly different e-mail address of origin, slightly
different subject line". Our department had NEVER sent it repeatedly. And of
course I did not "use SEELANGS as a source of addresses to spam
individually, and I have never done this before". The only explanation I can
think about is that our group has sent an
announcement to other lists related with Slavic culture where moderators
have submitted it also. May be Slavic & East European Languages and
Literature list itself is included in other lists? Anyway, please, accept
our sincerest apologies. Thank you for your attention and sorry for
inconvenience,

Sincerely yours,

Dr. Yelena Minyonok,
Curator of folklore archive

Institute of World Literature

Russian Academy of Sciences

Russia, 121069, Moscow, Povarskaia, 25a




----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Rifkin" <brifkin at WISC.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 7:49 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] question of spam


> Dear SEELANGers:
>
> I hesitate to add to our inboxes in this discussion, but I thought
> I'd suggest that when the same or nearly the same e-mail message is
> sent from slightly different addresses, with slightly or very
> different subject lines, I would qualify the message as spam.  The
> posting in question (about a folklore expedition) has come to me over
> a dozen times in the last week, each with a slightly different e-mail
> address of origin, slightly different subject line, and each time
> defeating the filters I created to send the message to the trash
> (after the third message was received.)
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ben Rifkin
>
> --
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>
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