Re: Moderation: captainblake's blackberry

Cory Foy <[email protected]> Sun, 30 May 2010 03:17:25 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.refactoring
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Found it. It was in the headers. Look for "[email protected]". 
That's who it was delivered to before it gets forwarded to the Blackberry.

And I see that name in the user's list as having registered in 2005. 
Hopefully that fixes it.

Cory

Joshua Kerievsky wrote:
> Since [email protected] doesn't show up on the list of folks
> subscribed to this list, and since Yahoo has never been able to help with
> this issue (and I did push them hard on it a few years ago), I've just tried
> to "ban" the [email protected] email address.  I have no idea
> if that will do anything for this problem, I suspect not.  I'm open to
> suggestions for fixing it (though I have little time until the 2nd week in
> June).
> 
> best
> jk
> 
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Kaleb Pederson
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> I also have a filter for it.
>>
>> Since it's been happening for at least a couple of years (if I remember
>> correctly), we probably wouldn't need to send an e-mail to anybody who has
>> posted in that time frame.
>>
>> --
>> Kaleb Pederson
>>
>> Blog - http://kalebpederson.com
>> Twitter - http://twitter.com/kalebpederson
>>
>>
>> On Monday, May 24, 2010 09:49:27 pm you wrote:
>>> Yes, it happens every time I post to the list.  We've explored it
>>> before (check the archives) and the answer always comes back that
>>> there isn't any good way for yahoo to identify the offending user.
>>>
>>> My suggestion was to write a script that sends a test message to each
>>> subscriber individually and track which one bounces and then
>>> unsubscribe them.  But this was never acted upon.
>>>
>>> Its annoying enough that I built a mail filter to drop those specific
>>> bounces, but its really annoying.  If I were moderator, I would have
>>> done something aggressive to fix it, but it apparently doesn't bug the
>>> existing moderators/owners of the list enough to track this annoyance
>>> down and kill it once and for all.
>>
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