From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com (Rob Thorpe) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OT] inundated by Swen / Gibe emails Date: 24 Sep 2003 01:25:55 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1a61f7e5.0309240025.7a1feb33@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064392281 24025 80.91.224.253 (24 Sep 2003 08:31:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 24 10:31:19 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A253P-00082q-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:31:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A252w-0007bb-Gt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 04:30:50 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.135.40.163 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1064391957 15859 127.0.0.1 (24 Sep 2003 08:25:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Sep 2003 08:25:57 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116831 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12756 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12756 > I am wondering why, because I thought I could just delete this email > address and subscribe on another one, it's just this list that I use the > address for. But will it help? Any ideas? > > If I don't reply again, it's because I missed the mail amongst all the > Swen crap. It might help a bit. I'm getting swen/gibe emails at the rate of about 300/200 per day. I can only assume that this is because lots of the spammers who've found my address on usenet have caught it. Does anyone know more?