<div dir="auto">Consider as an opportunity to move to discourse (rather than create a new email list?)<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 1:09 PM Brian M Hamlin <<a href="mailto:maplabs@light42.com">maplabs@light42.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Hello and best wishes from Berkeley, California<br>
<br>
very recently Angelos sent an email to #osgeolive email list with an <br>
announcement for the v17 kickoff -- great news<br>
<br>
However, immediately after that kickoff email, SPAM EMAIL returned to <br>
the email list.<br>
<br>
Here in Berkeley, I delete spam messages from the mailing list as <br>
needed. In the quiet months since the last #osgeolive, there is almost <br>
zero spam. Yet the day after the kickoff email and three replies, now <br>
there are dozens of new SPAM EMAIL messages coming in ?!<br>
<br>
SPAM EMAIL activity appears to be directly linked to the mailing list <br>
activity -- no emails, no spam / new emails, new spam.<br>
<br>
The kind of SPAM EMAIL on the mailing list is exactly the low-grade <br>
commercial kind in English, that someone else gets paid to send. Someone <br>
or something, has setup a responder to the email list to add commercial <br>
content SPAM EMAIL to this list when there is activity. The SPAM EMAIL <br>
that has been coming for almost a year now, is similar in format and <br>
content.<br>
<br>
The #osgeolive email list is a service to the public and "civil <br>
society".. it is a communications method between people that are far <br>
away and not linked otherwise. This spam activity inserts itself on top <br>
of a healthy, low cost and efficient link, like an infection. Worse, no <br>
one gets paid to build world class, excellent technology on #osgeolive <br>
but someone or some thing invades the list for tiny amounts of money, <br>
distracting and annoying those that are doing works for others and the <br>
environmental world.<br>
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Perhaps it is time to start a new email list, and notify the 210 <br>
subscribers with a personal contact, to rebuild trust and put this EMAIL <br>
SPAM in the past. Other suggestions welcome<br>
<br>
best regards --Brian M Hamlin / MAPLABS / Berkeley, California<br>
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