Re: [email protected]: Please remove me from your [email protected] or [email protected] mailing lists

Taylan Kammer wrote:
> I've had the same problem.  No idea what he's trying to achieve...

What I see is indistinguishable from spam but with more annoying intention (I get 
into this in detail below) amounting to harassment. I'm surprised that this behavior 
is tolerated and not identified as a source of unkind communication.

> Anyhow, you can make the ML mail you your password and then use it to unsubscribe.
> That will put an end to the annoying [Hangout - NYLXS] mails consisting of broken
> up threads and a good amount of spam.
In my case that did not work. At first I couldn't reach the Mailman server at all to 
get to the web front end. Now I can get to it but I'm told that I am not a subscriber 
because his Mailman instance doesn't see my email address on its subscriber list for 
that "Hangout" mailing list. Messages to [email protected] are going to me, and 
correspondingly I've been receiving messages with [email protected]'s Mailman 
password.

Therefore I believe that [email protected] has set up a forwarding address of 
"[email protected]" and made it so that email to that address is routed to me. I 
can only imagine that the benefit to him is that if anyone he does this to complains, 
he can falsely claim that they're not subscribed when clearly they are receiving the 
unsolicited messages. In other words, this is intentional.

I tried unsubscribing [email protected] from that mailing list and apparently he 
re-subscribed that account back to that mailing list. So this would seem to be an 
intentionally annoying. He knows what is doing, knows it is unwanted, and keeps doing it.