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Re: Nothing from list for two days -SOLVED



On 26 Dec 2004, Sam Watkins wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 02:52:17PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I decided to unsubscribe and subscribe again to see if it would help. I
> > then found that I had some how become unsubscribed without my knowledge,
> > so I subscribed and am now getting mail from the list again. No idea how
> > that could have happened.
> 
> The only thing I can think of is if you have been on "vacation" and have
> been running a program to mail people who contact you telling them you
> are on vacation, and that program has been spamming the list, then I
> or someone else probably unsubscribed you.  (by sending a message
> pretending to be from you to the unsubscribe service, to which your
> broken vacation program would have replied, thus unsubscribing you!)
> We have done this to one or two people recently due to the annoyance of
> receiving such messages every time we post.  I don't remember if you
> were on vacation though.
> 
> :)
> 

No, I haven't been away and I have no such program.

Anthony


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