RE: unauthorized unsubscribes

[thansen@moscow.com]

I strongly support Ms. Nisse's suggestion.  This has always been a very 
trusting servelist.

I assume that the person was caught, showing (once again) that ignorance is its 
own punishment.

Tom Hansen
Moscow

> Mr. Stambler should be ousted from the list for this little shenanigan... no
> questions. He knew exactly what he was doing.
> 
> LuJane Nisse, Publisher
> LatahEagle and The Boomerang!
> www.lataheagle.com or www.the-boomerang.com
> or visit us at www.smalltownpapers.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BMoore [mailto:bmoore@fsr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:50 PM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: unauthorized unsubscribes
> 
> 
> Visionaries,
> 
> Today (Wed, 10/9) at 2:13pm a series of unsubscribe requests
> began coming into the vision2020 list from our vision2020
> unsubscribe page.  We were quickly able to pinpoint the source
> of the unsubscribe submissions to a computer lab on the UofI
> campus.  Within a very few minutes, with the cooperation of
> that UofI department, we were able to identify the person at that
> keyboard submitting the unsubscribe requests.  My thanks to the
> folks at the U of I.
> 
> The following addresses were unsubscribed:
>  o CarlWestberg846@hotmail.com
>  o christianlegal2002@yahoo.com
>  o rwiza@hotmail.com
>  o bookpeople@moscow.com
>  o london@moscow.com
>  o dougwils@moscow.com
>  o dwhitney@moscow.com
>  o the entire Vision2020 digest
> 
> these addresses have been resubscribed.  if you received an email notice
> that you had been unsubscribed, you can ignore it.  The individual
> submitting
> these unsubscribes has been identified as Doug Stambler.  I spoke with Mr.
> Stambler by phone and he told me that he thought he was sending email
> to those addresses rather than unsubscribing them.  In my opinion that would
> be a very difficult mistake to make given the design and warnings on the
> page.
> 
> Now I suppose we'll have to move the list to a more secure platform that
> will
> prevent this kind of behavior, assign passwords to everyone, etc...
> 
> Bill Moore
> First Step
> 
> 
> 


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