[olpc-help] Off-Topic Spam 'Newsletter'

Melanie Light mellight at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jan 29 17:24:50 EST 2009


Hi Deepak.
So sorry to annoy you with this, but I am trying to unsubscribe to  
this group
as I no longer have that lovely OLPC, but can't seem to do that.
Any help?
Best,
Melanie

On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Deepak Saxena wrote:

>
> Seth,
>
> I believe in mailman you can simply add his address to a block list
> so none of his email will ge through.
>
> ~Deepak
>
> On Jan 29 2009, at 01:00, Seth Woodworth was caught saying:
>> There have been persistent attempts by lawrence.auster at att.net to  
>> send WAY
>> off-topic messages to all of the OLPC mailing lists, mailing list  
>> owners and
>> moderators.  He has been privately warned that his messages were not
>> acceptable.  I apologize that many of these offensive messages have  
>> made it
>> through to list subscribers.  I will endeavor to add this person's  
>> email
>> address to the ban list of all of our lists that he has managed to  
>> post to.
>>
>> Interestingly enough I have also seen this individual post to  
>> several of my
>> Fedora and Gnome mailing lists.  Why he(/they?) are focusing on
>> Free-Software related projects I have no idea.
>>
>> Thank you for your patience and feel free to drop me a line if  
>> there are any
>> future occurrences.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Seth Woodworth
>
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