Big Ditto. I’ve bocked all of the accounts, even the folks who simply replied to the original (20) message(s). Haven’t seen any more mail in the last few hours.
I wonder how we all got caught up in this. It seems there are a lot of Dopers on the list.
and not a single person here has reported any of these emails to spamcop.net
???
Thats a good way to get it to stop in short time usually
Yeah, I had about 20 of 'em too.
And there I was complaining the other day about how I NEVER seem to get junk/spam mail!
That’ll teach me to open 'me mouth.
I haven’t seen even one of them.
Man, life is good.
I got about 20 as well I replied to one telling them to fuck off. havent had any more.
I got 31 all at once (well i got to my computer and 31 were there. I deleted them and no more came
I don’t think I registered for the temp board so if someone (mod/admin) can look that up they might get a clue of where this came from.
Wait a minuite - the email address they used I no longer have registered w/ the SDMB and the one I do have was not sent anything
I just looked in my e-mail for the first time since Friday night. I had fifty-six (count 'em, 56) messages from this guy together with a few pretty offensive responses. They all came in about 5:30 on Saturday night. I’m glad I looked here since I thought I had actually sent the guy something. Thy told me that I couldn’t live without e-mail. They were wrong.
It is nice to know that Heather is on maternity leave, though.
I got 30 of them. I unsubscribed and they stopped.
Check out the ATMB thread guys _ I got a response from the guy who publishes the newsletter.
I just started a post about it too. Some of the responses were pretty mean.
No question in my mind that the guy’s a spammer. Ask yourself: how did he get your email address???
It’s very common for clueless web-merchants to buy CDROMS full of addresses, then to “subscribe” them all to their new web store so everyone on the directed email list can receive periodic important announcements about shaving cream and farm implements. He’s doing you a favor, you see. Saving you the time it would take you to subscribe yourself.
I to got about 25. I am on AOL. I sent some samples to them so they can touble shoot it.
You know I thought some of the names of the people replying to the messages looked familiar. I wonder if that David Lynch guy is THE David Lynch of Twin Peaks fame well doesn’t matter as I won’t be mailing him
Add me to the list of victims of this. I know an e-mail virus when I see it, though, and deleted everything immediately.
I got those. It’s an autoreply feedback loop. Somebody signed a bunch of us up for a newsletter we didn’t want, via listserv. Some of the people whose addresses were added to the list are out of town or have changed their address, and have set up their email server to autoreply to email that comes in. The mailing from the listserv arrives, generates a reply, which gets sent to the listserv, which sends the message to everyone on the list, which generates another autoreply. It’s an ugly thing. What made it worse was the people who didn’t get it and sent replies to the person who had the autoreply, thus multiplying the problem even further.
Oh, and FTR, I sent an email to the unsubscribe address and was able to successgully unsubscribe and have received no further email from this list or any of the people on it.
I got a bunch of these annoying emails too - about 15-20. Also got some pissed off responses from other victims. I replied telling them to stop and that was the end of it so far.
I’ve gotten about 70 of these today. I have a radio phone, and my best connection speed all week is 9,600 bps. I really enjoy waiting for an hour worth of crap mail to download. I’m thinking of making this my new hobby.