Heads-up - spammer using this group to harvest email addresses

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Terry Kennedy

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Sep 29, 2018, 3:20:05 PM9/29/18
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I just received a spam email from "Норд Фуд Сервис" offering to sell octal tube sockets (which don't even fit nixies!), sent to an email address I only use here. I would encourage all members to not do business with people who send spam.

neonixie-l

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Sep 29, 2018, 10:47:52 PM9/29/18
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Hmmm. As an ordinary member, can you see other members' email addresses either in the digest or from the forum?

Also, I'd be interested in the email of the spammer.

Nick

Jeff Walton

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Sep 29, 2018, 10:50:39 PM9/29/18
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If you reply to a post by email, you can often see the replier email address. 

Jeff

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Date: 9/29/18 9:47 PM (GMT-06:00)
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Subject: [neonixie-l] Re: Heads-up - spammer using this group to harvest email addresses

Hmmm. As an ordinary member, can you see other members' email addresses either in the digest or from the forum?

Nick

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gregebert

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Sep 30, 2018, 12:37:26 AM9/30/18
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The sockets email I got was from Yuriy; I'm on his list because I bought some tubes from him recently.
It amazes me how many vintage devices he's acquired for resale.

John Smout

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Sep 30, 2018, 3:24:05 AM9/30/18
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> On 30 Sep 2018, at 03:47, neonixie-l <neoni...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Hmmm. As an ordinary member, can you see other members' email addresses either in the digest or from the forum?
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> Nick

I use the emailed version and can see most people’s email addresses but not all.

The ones that I cannot see say ‘X Y’via neonixie-l.

John S

Юрий Овчинников

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Sep 30, 2018, 3:55:29 AM9/30/18
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Sorry, it me sending. If you do not want to receive emails from me, let me know. This is not spam.

вс, 30 сент. 2018 г. в 10:24, John Smout <j...@jsdesign.co.uk>:
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Юрий Овчинников

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Sep 30, 2018, 3:57:20 AM9/30/18
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I will remove your addresses from the mass mailing.

вс, 30 сент. 2018 г. в 10:55, Юрий Овчинников <1219y...@gmail.com>:

redrok

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Sep 30, 2018, 10:15:02 AM9/30/18
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As far as I know, I'm an ordinary member and I can see email addresses associated with with individuals posts.
This is in the digest I read every morning. Its in grayed out text above each post.

I would post a screen shot but that would have individual email addresses.

Ordinary member?
What categories of members are there?

redrok

J Forbes

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Sep 30, 2018, 10:30:43 AM9/30/18
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Any mass mailing IS spam. Please don't do it.

Terry Kennedy

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Oct 9, 2018, 4:48:45 PM10/9/18
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On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 3:57:20 AM UTC-4, Юрий Овчинников wrote:
I will remove your addresses from the mass mailing.

I just received another one of your unwanted spam mails, this one titled "actual list".

I do not want to receive these. I will talke additional action if I receive a 3rd one. 

Юрий Овчинников

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Oct 10, 2018, 12:55:32 AM10/10/18
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I deleted your address. Sorry.

вт, 9 окт. 2018 г. в 23:48, Terry Kennedy <terry-...@glaver.org>:
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Tomasz Kowalczyk

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Oct 10, 2018, 1:51:50 AM10/10/18
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Just stop sending them at all instead of apologising to people one by one and removing their adresses. Spam mailing is considered rude and to be honest I didn't even bother looking at your offer - I don't read spam.

MROBOTO

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Oct 10, 2018, 10:51:47 PM10/10/18
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Since joining this group, I have received multiple spam and phishing emails. Coincidence?

gregebert

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Oct 11, 2018, 12:18:40 AM10/11/18
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Probably coincidence; I get very little spam and I dont have extra filtering set.

As far as I know, your email address is not disclosed until you send a private message to a neonixie member, and even then only to the member you are contacting.
Group admins have the ability to view the email address of all members, but as a non-admin member I will vouch for their integrity not to give out anyone's info.

Nicholas Stock

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Oct 11, 2018, 12:21:11 AM10/11/18
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I don't get any spam on this either (Gmail's filters are actually pretty good). I can also vouch for Yuriy, the originator of the list....I've bought many tubes from him and he's honest and reasonable. A simple request to him to remove your name will suffice I'm sure.

Cheers,

(Pharma) Nick

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J Forbes

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Oct 11, 2018, 1:24:12 AM10/11/18
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Yuriy should not run his email list in a way that requires opt-out. Rather, he should ask on the neonixie list if anyone is interested in receiving his emails, and only send emails to those who say they want to receive them. In other words, he should have an opt-in list.

Юрий Овчинников

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Oct 11, 2018, 2:29:19 AM10/11/18
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Thanks. I will do so.

чт, 11 окт. 2018 г. в 8:24, J Forbes <jfor...@gmail.com>:
Yuriy should not run his email list in a way that requires opt-out. Rather, he should ask on the neonixie list if anyone is interested in receiving his emails, and only send emails to those who say they want to receive them. In other words, he should have an opt-in list.


On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 9:21:11 PM UTC-7, Pramanicin wrote:
 I can also vouch for Yuriy, the originator of the list....I've bought many tubes from him and he's honest and reasonable. A simple request to him to remove your name will suffice I'm sure.

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Nicholas Stock

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Oct 11, 2018, 11:33:35 AM10/11/18
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That's a good solution.

(Pharma) Nick

Alex

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Oct 13, 2018, 10:07:35 AM10/13/18
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I can see everyones e-mail addresses in the daily digest too, and always have done. It marks up every post sequentially in the digest just like an e-mail chain, with "Firstname Lastname <em...@address.com>" format. It is useful if you do with to take a conversation off list and is probably how it should work in an ideal world, but then the online world has become less than ideal in the last decade. I dont get Yuri messages but then this is the first reply I have posted on here is 6 months or so - I am a lurker, so to speak. My suggestion to Yuri would be to post to his own stock list topic on here, listing his updated quantities and prices of indicating devices, once a fortnight or month maybe. That would do and would not be OTT. No direct mailing.

Regards,

- Alex
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