On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 19:45 +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 14:24 -0400, Arthur Hagen wrote:
>
> > Other than that, who else here have recently gotten private emails from
> > a Rohit Sakalle <rohitsakalle@???>, who apparently disregards the
> > list and sends private-only emails to list users requesting "help",
> > without it even being a reply to anything (IOW unsolicited requests for
> > others to do his job for him)? That's kind of rude -- are there any
> > moderators who can take action?
>
> We're all ears. Sadly none of us work for Google, so assuming that the
> sender really is using gmail and is sending to private addresses outside
> of exim.org, there's nothing we can do. I don't believe that
> unsubscribing the person you mention - assuming they are subscribed -
> would help the situation one bit.
It might make it harder for the person to harvest new users or lurkers
who haven't posted here yet? (Unless, of course, the names are
harvested from a public web mirror.)
Anyhow, I wonder if it's a cultural problem, because I've received four
such unsolicited emails which weren't even replies over the last few
months, and all of them were from Indian individuals, all pretty much
requesting someone else to collect everything they know about a subject
and send it to them. Anyone from India here who can say whether this is
common or acceptable practise in India, or whether it's just a
coincidence?
