If you use LinkedIn (a popular business-oriented social networking site), and utilize the feature to import your email contacts and send connection requests to all of them, *please* un-check the mailing list addresses... since apparently this has now been done twice...
-j antman
I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that there's no legitimate circumstance for member@linkedin.com
to be sending to nanog@nanog.org.
Couldn't the list be taught to filter these?
Owen
Hello all,
I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that there's no legitimate circumstance for member@linkedin.com
to be sending to nanog@nanog.org.Couldn't the list be taught to filter these?
Owen
Since this seems to be causing everyone a lot of stress, I reached out
to LinkedIn today. I've just had a reply saying that nanog <at>
nanog.org has been added to their "do not contact" list. That means,
assuming their processes work, the address will no longer receive any
emails from LinkedIn or their members though LinkedIn.
If anyone from NANOG management doesn't like this, LinkedIn confirmed
that this block can be revered if required.
Hopefully that will solve the issue and let everyone go back to
running the Intertubes.
Alex
Those "processes" have been noticeably broken in the past. (Note as
well that even if they do work in this case, that won't stop spam to
other nanog.org mailing lists, current or future.) The best way to stop
the spammers at LinkedIn is to block their domain at the MTA, and that's
what I've recommended that the keepers of the NANOG mailing lists do.
---rsk
But what will we complain about now???
Thanks for doing that Alex. We'll see if it works.
Cheers,
Joshua
And hope that non-mailing-lists on the same host don't need to see mail
from that MTA?
I'm amazed that the NANOG mailing list doesn't simply reject email from
non-subscribed addresses. I didn't realise that this was so difficult,
considering it's an out-of-box Mailman feature to be able to arrange
exactly that.
Mark.
I think they're supposed to. I recall my first message to this list a
couple of months ago was returned, because I was not subscribed with
the same address. Then after getting subscribed with the address from
which I wanted to post, my message still did not get posted
automatically, and required a moderator approval prior to actually
being posted.
Has this since changed? Or have the moderators been approving all
these LinkedIn invitations?
C.
In fact, for many years, you had to be subscribed to nanog-post in order to
post to nanog (old timers will remember when I ran afoul of that, after
Katrina :-}); I presume it wasn't reimplemented when the lists were rehosted
several years ago.
Cheers,
-- jra