Idiots on the listserv

[hogie]

Get me offa this thing!

SPAM LINK

Hey Dude,

Looks like your email account has been hacked - change that password!

?? I'm not Tim Gregory

No, you're not - and the email wasn't sent to you. It was sent to the mostly-defunct Brewnoser listserv.

I'm confused, who's email is thought to be hacked?
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Tim's. The original email came FROM his address, TO this list.

Yup, sorry folks. I'm assuming very bad things will happen if you open that link.

My password has been changed. Hopefully won't happen again.

[chalmers]

Wait, I'm not Tim?

[chalmers]

In people's defense, the listserv hasn't been used in months, so they've probably forgotten about it, and got confused. I wonder how we kill the thing, so this doesn't happen again. I guess I could just un subscribe....

[mr x]

Maybe we should make up an unsubscribe thread to forward to the list-keeper.

This event is one of the reasons I like to clear out dead users from the site. Just more unused addys that can come back from the dead.

[hogie]

Paul shares the title of "somewhat reasonable but also poking the bear" with myself and chalmers steps in to grab the "ultimate voice of reason" throne.

I'd encourage people who are bothered by this to unsubscribe, which you can do by sending mail to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> with the following command in the body of your email message:

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unsubscribe brewnoser <your email here>

I never got a confirmation email after unsubscribing but I hope that's the end of it.

[CorneliusAlphonse]

I laughed at Paul's. Insulting people who replied to the email... By replying to the email

[Jimmy]

I laughed at Paul's. Insulting people who replied to the email... By replying to the email

[chalmers]

I think the irony was lost on him, hence my poking.

[TimG]

I'm Tim.. what?

[Dirt Chicken]

I know it was intended to be funny, just my phone kept lighting up!!!

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[akr71]

This 'idiot' points out that the so called 'voice of reason' should have sent the "Hey Dude" email directly to Tim and not the entire listserv.

IMO that makes the 'voice of reason' the idiot, not me.

EDIT: add to that - I never received the SPAM LINK in the first place, hence my confusion

[derek]

This 'idiot' points out that the so called 'voice of reason' should have sent the "Hey Dude" email directly to Tim and not the entire listserv.

I've never agreed with that though. When something like that happens on a listserv, if you don't respond to the listserv, then you end up with somebody else doing it anyway, and you just create more confusion. In this particular case, I don't think anyone was being an idiot - it's something like 3 months since the last message on the list, and another 6 months before that. Nobody's looking at headers to notice that the mail wasn't sent directly to them (I knew because listserv mail gets filtered to folders named for the particular list).

Chalmers: monica sent me that text message on my way home last night. It seems suspiciously like somebody's got Tim's phone contacts as well as his emails...

[chalmers]

Crap. Looks like it was a bad idea to integrate all of my Gmail and phone contacts. Damn you Tim! No more "12345" as your password (for email or luggage).

[bluenose]

Crap. Looks like it was a bad idea to integrate all of my Gmail and phone contacts. Damn you Tim! No more "12345" as your password (for email or luggage).

hot tatas is still ok right?

[benwedge]

Based on a conversation I had with the Chebucto Community Net webmaster last spring, they'd be happy to retire it or charge us a fee for it to exist. Who set the ListServ up in the first place? That person could have it deleted by simply sending the <delete brewnosers> command.

[derek]

Based on a conversation I had with the Chebucto Community Net webmaster last spring, they'd be happy to retire it or charge us a fee for it to exist. Who set the ListServ up in the first place? That person could have it deleted by simply sending the <delete brewnosers> command.

Ask Jeff (Brewnoser). He's about the only one of that generation of Brewnosers who's ever here, and he isn't here much.