He's got a valid point, need to rethink this! Thanks for forwarding it the msg Pope YN >From: Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: "Killing of Gambian Student protest" Spam/Mailbomb >Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:53:28 +0200 > >Hi folks, >I received this mail from one of the e-mail recipients of the petition >letter. > >Perhaps a new strategy has to be considered. The distribution of the >flyers at >the first of May (international workers day) celebrations all over the >world. > >Momodou Camara > > > >On 17 Apr 00, at 10:14, Catherine Hampton [log in to unmask] wrote: > > > Freedom2surf -- someone has put the webmaster address for the > > Human Rights Web, which I maintain, on a mailing list for a > > protest. This has resulted in my getting eighteen identical > > email messages regarding this case, under different names and > > ostensibly from different email addresses. :( The emails are > > attached, and if you look at the headers, each one of them was > > sent from your site, not from the sites in the email addresses > > in the From: lines. > > > > I suspect this was done through a CGI script on a web page, > > since several emails have no name in the From: line whatsoever. > > > > These emails were sent to most of the valid addresses at > > Amnesty International, a number of other addresses belonging > > to other human rights organizations, and contact addresses > > at newspapers around the world. All eighteen =IDENTICAL= > > messages were sent to all of these addresses. > > > > I am one person, not in any way affiliated with the Gambian > > government, and maintain one Web site about human rights. One > > email is more than sufficient to make me aware of this situation. > > What this protest has done is spam my mailbox. That wasn't > > intelligent -- the protesters have probably done their cause > > considerable harm, although (from what I know about Gambia) > > their cause may be quite worthwhile. > > > > Please determine what happened here and take the necessary > > steps to stop it. Thank you! > > > > Ebone -- I'm ccing this to you for your information, although > > I suspect this was a badly planned and executed protest by some > > customers of freedom2surf rather than anything intentionally > > abusive. > > > > Those of you who participated in this protest -- it isn't wise > > to use a web form protest that automatically forwards a form > > letter to email addresses, at least not if you don't intend to > > harrass people. While I can see doing this to officials in > > Gambia, it is NOT in your best interests or the best interests > > of your cause to abuse the Internet in this fashion. > > > > Thank you! > > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------