mailing list - was v17 kickoff

[Brian M Hamlin]

Hello and best wishes from Berkeley, California

   very recently Angelos sent an email to #osgeolive email list with an 
announcement for the v17 kickoff -- great news

   However, immediately after that kickoff email, SPAM EMAIL returned to 
the email list.

   Here in Berkeley, I delete spam messages from the mailing list as 
needed. In the quiet months since the last #osgeolive, there is almost 
zero spam.  Yet the day after the kickoff email and three replies, now 
there are dozens of new SPAM EMAIL messages coming in ?!

   SPAM EMAIL activity appears to be directly linked to the mailing list 
activity -- no emails, no spam / new emails, new spam.

   The kind of SPAM EMAIL on the mailing list is exactly the low-grade 
commercial kind in English, that someone else gets paid to send. Someone 
or something, has setup a responder to the email list to add commercial 
content SPAM EMAIL to this list when there is activity. The SPAM EMAIL 
that has been coming for almost a year now, is similar in format and 
content.

   The #osgeolive email list is a service to the public and "civil 
society".. it is a communications method between people that are far 
away and not linked otherwise.  This spam activity inserts itself on top 
of a healthy, low cost and efficient link, like an infection.  Worse, no 
one gets paid to build world class, excellent technology on #osgeolive 
but someone or some thing invades the list for tiny amounts of money, 
distracting and annoying those that are doing works for others and the 
environmental world.

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   Perhaps it is time to start a new email list, and notify the 210 
subscribers with a personal contact, to rebuild trust and put this EMAIL 
SPAM in the past. Other suggestions welcome

   best regards   --Brian M Hamlin    /  MAPLABS  /  Berkeley, California