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Re: Brickbay spam??
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lugnet.market.services
Date: 
Sun, 12 Nov 2000 05:00:13 GMT
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In lugnet.market.services, Jan-Albert van Ree writes:
> This morning I found an email, with "service@brickbay.com" as sender. It
> turned out to be spam by Mark Ng. I am not interested in his postings, so
> on Usenet I can filter them out, same for personal email. But now that
> people are using the Brickbay service email to send a message to everybody
> filtering becomes a lot harder. It's not possible to block
> "service@brickbay.com" without also losing all functionality of Brickbay
> :-(
> 
> Dan, if you're reading this, please consider changing this, and add a
> separate "mailing list" email adres where everybody on Brickbay can choose
> to get this kind of emails or not.

You can now turn the contact feature off by going into general preferences.
My own admin@brickbay.com e-mail address was suspended for a couple days
because couple people forwarded the message from Mark Ng to my provider with
full headers "service@brickbay.com" as originated from the contact form.
I hope this won't happen again, now the contact feature defaults to NO upon
registration so please select this option at your own risk.



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  Re: Brickbay spam??
 
(...) Thanks a lot for the help... it's really sad some people need to abuse such a great system. (26 years ago, 12-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)

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  Brickbay spam??
 
This morning I found an email, with "service@brickbay.com" as sender. It turned out to be spam by Mark Ng. I am not interested in his postings, so on Usenet I can filter them out, same for personal email. But now that people are using the Brickbay (...) (26 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)

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