Re: unauthorized unsubscribes

[Bill London <london@moscow.com>]

> My thanks to Bill Moore and the other techno-whizzes at First Step for being so
> on-top-of-it.
> We are benefiting from an incredible donation of technical support and
> high-value time from First Step.  That company's commitment to this list is
> amazing.
> BL
>
> BMoore wrote:
>
> > 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