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

On 2/24/20 12:28 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
> 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.
> I also asked to be removed several times to no effect.


You may be able to add filters through your email provider's interface, 
based on the unique identifiers in those messages. I have successfully 
removed all of his spam in this way; the emails never make it to my 
inboxes.

I also blocked all of his known domain names in the same way for good 
measure; if somebody refuses to stop harassing me through spam, I see no 
reason to ever waste another minute reading what they write (which was 
full of hatred to begin with anyway).

I hope the suggestions above work for you (and anybody else who is being 
harassed in this way).