- Jan 12, 2001
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I was just wondering if anyone else got a message in their inbox from "Headliner e-mail news <Mailinglist@headliner.nl>" with a subject of "Hardware news @ Headliner".
I never subscribe to any lists or give that address out to anyone. I normally use hotmail for anything that might cause me to get spam. In fact, the only non-aquaintanc/business with that address is anadtech. If anyone else got that message, it might mean that they are selling out our information on mailing lists.
This is purely speculation at this time, but I would like to know if anyone else got the same message. If so, I will be really pissed. Let me know.
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AnandTech Forums does not sell or give the email addresses of our members to anyone. Period. The only exception is to law enforcement agencies, etc. when a a specific member is shown to be involved in wrongdoing.
< update >
We have determined that the spammer is a member who registered on 04/02/2002 as scannert. He has a total of three posts, and all of them have a link to headliner.nl. One is in this thread, and two are in this archived thread.
We will file a formal abuse complaint about this person, and we have banned the IP range for their server. Since those who have received this spam have the actual email, you should forward it to the abuse address mentioned earlier, abuse@inter.NL.net.
We do not know if will do any good to forward it to abuse@headliner.nl, because they are a mailing list site. Writing them could possibly cause them to send more spam. Therefore, we recommend that you block all email from this domain name.
AnandTech Moderator
I never subscribe to any lists or give that address out to anyone. I normally use hotmail for anything that might cause me to get spam. In fact, the only non-aquaintanc/business with that address is anadtech. If anyone else got that message, it might mean that they are selling out our information on mailing lists.
This is purely speculation at this time, but I would like to know if anyone else got the same message. If so, I will be really pissed. Let me know.
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AnandTech Forums does not sell or give the email addresses of our members to anyone. Period. The only exception is to law enforcement agencies, etc. when a a specific member is shown to be involved in wrongdoing.
< update >
We have determined that the spammer is a member who registered on 04/02/2002 as scannert. He has a total of three posts, and all of them have a link to headliner.nl. One is in this thread, and two are in this archived thread.
We will file a formal abuse complaint about this person, and we have banned the IP range for their server. Since those who have received this spam have the actual email, you should forward it to the abuse address mentioned earlier, abuse@inter.NL.net.
We do not know if will do any good to forward it to abuse@headliner.nl, because they are a mailing list site. Writing them could possibly cause them to send more spam. Therefore, we recommend that you block all email from this domain name.
AnandTech Moderator