[Spambayes] Mailing List

[Robert K. Coe]

You don't by any chance have an out-of-office message or some other form of autoreply in effect, do you? One way to pick up email addresses is to send a message to a mailing list and see what autoreplies it generates.
 
In any case, your accusation would carry more weight if you had the foresight to register on the list with a special email address, since that might provide proof that the list is the source of your problem. I'm guessing you didn't think to do that, though. 

Bob 

-----Original Message-----
From: spambayes-bounces at python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Chris Mooney
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:53 PM
To: spambayes at python.org
Subject: [Spambayes] Mailing List


 
I recently subscribed to Spambayes at the recommendation of a friend.  I liked the sound of the methods your program uses to learn each users tastes.  I have been using my current e-mail id for about 15 months, and remarkably only was receiving one or two junk mails a week.  My main reason for installing Spambayes now was so I wouldn't forget about it by the time I really needed it.  
 
Within hours of installing Spambayes, I received a junk mail.  Within the the next couple of days I was getting several a day.  Now after two weeks, I'm getting five or six per day.  While your program is handling them great, I resent the fact that you were obviously the source of spreading my e-mail, and now that it's out there, I know from experience the abuse will only grow.  
 
I will not recommend your program to anybody unless they already have a large problem with spam.
 
Chris Mooney



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