Fw: Spam from Que (Perl User Group Books)

[Bill Day]

Looks like we may have even more soruces for books. Do you want to follow up on this Al? 

P.S. I never saw the original spam.

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Cross <user_groups at pm.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:06:13 +0100
To: pm_groups at pm.org
Subject: [pm_groups] Spam from Que

> Some of you may have got unsolicited email from Que this morning. It
> looks like the person responsible went to a number of the group pages
> on http://www.pm.org/ and manually extracted the email addresses
> (which a munged so they can't be extracted automatically).
> 
> If you got the email then I encourage you to reply to the email and
> (politely!) explain why what they did was wrong (amongst other things
> the email had a 350K PDF file attached).
> 
> Of course, you might like to sign up to Que and Sams' user groups
> programs. You'll probably get free books. You can get more info at
> www.samspublishing.com/usergroups and www.quepublishing.com/usergroups.
> 
> But this leads to another question. Obviously there are people like
> Que who want to contact PM groups to offer you free stuff. It would
> be good if we could make this easy for the people that we want to
> hear from.
> 
> Maybe what we should do is set up another mailing list at pm.org
> and allow anyone to post to it, but get submit all posts for 
> approval by a small team of trusted people. We could then advertise
> that list as the best way to contact all Perl Monger groups. I'm
> suggesting a separate mailing list as I assume there could be some
> groups who don't want any contact from commercial groups.
> 
> What do you all think?
> 
> Dave...
> 
> p.s In case you didn't already know, there is also a User Group
> programs at O'Reilly (http://ug.oreilly.com/).
> 
> 
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