[QuadList] Combined reply to Re: Monthy Password message--and Bill C's " Quad hey!-" Yahoo account issue

[Ted Langdell]

Re: Unexpected messages from people with Yahoo accounts:

It seems Bill Carpenter's Yahoo account needs at least a password change.

While this list received this message:

On Nov 15, 2012, at 1:43 AM, Bill Carpenter wrote:

> check this out when you get a chance http://msnbc.msn.com-career2.us/jobs/


I received a different one from Bill's account that had a different link.

It is an all too common problem.  The usual fix is to change passwords rather frequently, and to use something that's not easily figured out.  Something with lots of changes between letters and numbers and use of irregular CapItALizatIOn.

My nephew, niece and a number of other folks with Yahoo accounts disgorge spam such as this to every address in the Yahoo user's address book.

I've also had messages with, for example, my nephew's name as the sender, but the actual e-mail address is something quite different... usually a gobbledygook of alphanumeric characters at yahoo . com.  

That's apparently where the Yahoo user's address book names have been lifted but the address the spam or buggy message is not the address book owners Yahoo address.

The QuadList's Mailman software won't let the latter type of message pass because the e-mails don't match a subscriber.

Which leads into:

On Nov 15, 2012, at 5:09 AM, Chill315 at aol.com wrote:

> When the monthly automatic email is sent out about the subscription to the list, it includes the password that we use.  This should not be.  Bill Carpenter has appeared to have been hacked.  Someone is sending out emails that have nothing to do with this list.

>  

> Can you change this?  Or not send out the monthly emails?

>  

> Chris Hill



Subscribers have control over whether to receive the monthly e-mails about their QuadList passwords:

Get password reminder email for this list?
Once a month, you will get an email containing a password reminder for every list at this host to which you are subscribed. You can turn this off on a per-list basis by selecting No for this option. If you turn off password reminders for all the lists you are subscribed to, no reminder email will be sent to you.

Click here:

http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com

Scroll down to: 
QuadList Subscribers

Then down to: 
To unsubscribe from QuadList, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options enter your subscription email address:

Enter your subscriber e-mail address into the "unsubscribe or edit options" field and click on the "unsubscribe or edit options" button.

Find the section for: 
Get password reminder email for this list?
Once a month, you will get an email containing a password reminder for every list at this host to which you are subscribed. You can turn this off on a per-list basis by selecting No for this option. If you turn off password reminders for all the lists you are subscribed to, no reminder email will be sent to you.

and click on "No" if you want to turn it off... or leave as is to continue receiving them.

Hope this helps.

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

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