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| DATE | 2020-02-24 |
| FROM | Taylan Kammer
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] ruben@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from
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On 24.02.2020 06:28, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
> Taylan Kammer wrote:
>> I've had the same problem. No idea what he's trying to achieve...
>
> What I see is indistinguishable from spam but with more annoying
> intention (I get into this in detail below) amounting to harassment. I'm
> surprised that this behavior is tolerated and not identified as a source
> of unkind communication.
>
>> Anyhow, you can make the ML mail you your password and then use it to
>> unsubscribe.
>> That will put an end to the annoying [Hangout - NYLXS] mails
>> consisting of broken
>> up threads and a good amount of spam.
> In my case that did not work. At first I couldn't reach the Mailman
> server at all to get to the web front end. Now I can get to it but I'm
> told that I am not a subscriber because his Mailman instance doesn't see
> my email address on its subscriber list for that "Hangout" mailing list.
> Messages to villian-at-mrbrklyn.com are going to me, and correspondingly
> I've been receiving messages with villian-at-mrbrklyn.com's Mailman password.
>
> Therefore I believe that ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com has set up a forwarding
> address of "villian-at-mrbrklyn.com" and made it so that email to that
> address is routed to me. I can only imagine that the benefit to him is
> that if anyone he does this to complains, he can falsely claim that
> they're not subscribed when clearly they are receiving the unsolicited
> messages. In other words, this is intentional.
>
> I tried unsubscribing villian-at-mrbrklyn.com from that mailing list and
> apparently he re-subscribed that account back to that mailing list. So
> this would seem to be an intentionally annoying. He knows what is doing,
> knows it is unwanted, and keeps doing it.
You're right, he seems to have changed the strategy or something. I'm
getting mails again now.
Not sure how to best filter these. Gmail doesn't seem to have anything
built-in to filter by the real sender rather than From: field. Not sure
if Thunderbird does.
Tips appreciated. :-\
- Taylan
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