[OS X TeX] junk

[Mark LaPlante]

Since those responsible have wasted much of our time and resources, 
perhaps they should make a hefty donation to TUG as remuneration.

I was fortunate to be working all night, so I could keep deleting the 
messages via .Mac webmail (no access to set a rule). Otherwise, I would 
have likely lost legitimate email due to exceeding my storage quota.

Mark

On Aug 25, 2004, at 7:32 AM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

>
> 	I'm getting them too and I think it's a very serious problem: my 
> email service is based on the bandwidth used per month, and only 
> between last night and this morning I've received almost 500 (yes, 
> five hundred!) messages from this obnoxious source! Needless to say, 
> this is causing my service to overflow rapidly, since I also 
> participate in many other mailing lists.
>
> 	I know I've been pretty quiet on this list for a long while now, so I 
> might not be the best person to request anything, but I do read it 
> constantly and I am being affected by this problem; so I'd like to 
> request the blocking of this source, this "person", immediately at the 
> server level, some type of permanent ban from the list, because this 
> is really insulting! Whoever is producing this messages should be more 
> careful with his/her spam filters... if he/she is not considerate with 
> us and doesn't care about flooding us like this, then why should we 
> care about him/her at all? 500 messages in a single night is just more 
> than anyone can take!!
>
> 	So please, list admins, don't let this problem grow more than it 
> already has, thank you very much!
>
>
> 		Juan
>
> On Aug 25, 2004, at 2:17 AM, Kenny Pregnell wrote:
>
>> It everbody getting the mail "garbage" or is it just something wrong 
>> with me....
>>
>> Kenny Pregnell
>>
>> Centre for Quantum Computer Technology,
>> Department of Physics,
>> University of Queensland,
>> St. Lucia, QLD 4072
>> Australia.
>>
>> Email:     pregnell at physics.uq.edu.au
>> Fax:        +61 7 3365 1214
>> Phone:   +61 7 3346 9119
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