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[Maxima-discuss] Posible phising email

[John C F. <fr...@gm...>]

I have received an email asking me to confirm my subscription to a maxima
list through a link in the email. I have deleted it as I woUld any similar
email, Perhaps some one could confirm that this is so and warn orther list
members

Re: [Maxima-discuss] Posible phising email

[Jaime V. <vi...@fe...>]

On 15-06-2017 10:51, John C Frain wrote:
> I have received an email asking me to confirm my subscription to a 
> maxima list through a link in the email. I have deleted it as I woUld 
> any similar email, Perhaps some one could confirm that this is so and 
> warn orther list members
Hi,
I also got such message. I don't know if it's the same, but it was a 
legitimate message sent from Sourceforge and I answered it in the link 
provided in Sourceforge. I think that message is just an attempt from 
Sourceforge to try to make the current lists subscribers to sign in for 
other news letters and services from Sourceforge. It is very 
inconvenient and I hope they don't refresh our list membership removing 
those who didn't reply!

My opinion is that we (list administrators) should save a list of the 
current members so we can reset it in case they do some mass removal.

Best regards,
Jaime

Re: [Maxima-discuss] Posible phising email

[Roland S. <sal...@gm...>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaime Villate [mailto:vi...@fe...]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 12:06 PM

> I also got such message. I don't know if it's the same, but it was a legitimate message sent from Sourceforge and
> I answered it in the link provided in Sourceforge. I think that message is just an attempt from Sourceforge to try
> to make the current lists subscribers to sign in for other news letters and services from Sourceforge. 

It might be even worse than that. My understanding is that a new contract for signing in to the lists is being accepted
by the user who responds. Or am I wrong here?

> It is very
> inconvenient and I hope they don't refresh our list membership removing those who didn't reply!
> 

The mail which I got, too, explicitly announces removal from the lists in case one does not reply, giving a deadline in
my case of June 29. I also thought 3 times before replying, but finally I did. One should think ahead of time about how
to deal with mass removals, which are likely to come up.

> My opinion is that we (list administrators) should save a list of the current members so we can reset it in case
> they do some mass removal.
> 

... if sourceforge allows such a centralized resetting at all.

Best regards,
Roland

Re: [Maxima-discuss] Posible phising email

[Jaime V. <vi...@fe...>]

On 15-06-2017 15:37, Roland Salz wrote:
>> My opinion is that we (list administrators) should save a list of the current members so we can reset it in case
>> they do some mass removal.
>>
> ... if sourceforge allows such a centralized resetting at all.

As long as they continue using mailman, I can go the administration page 
and do a mass subscription.

If they stop using mailman, I then have other servers running it and we 
could migrate the list there (one of my servers is currently being used 
to replace the old list in U. Texas).

I'd like to here other user's comments. If many users feel uncomfortable 
with this annoying message and the new contract, it is then a good time 
to migrate our list to a new server :)

Cheers,

Jaime

Re: [Maxima-discuss] Posible phising email

[Q R <am...@gm...>]

Ditto, here is the exact email I received

Hi,

Thanks for being a SourceForge user. Our records indicate that you are
subscribed to the following project mailing list:

    maxima-discuss

We are contacting you to confirm you are still interested in receiving
emails from this SourceForge project list.  If you do not confirm your
subscription by June 29th, you will be unsubscribed from the above
mailing list.

Please click here to confirm your subscription:

<My unique hyperlink removed>

Thanks,
The SourceForge Team
A Slashdot Media Company

On 6/15/17, Roland Salz <sal...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jaime Villate [mailto:vi...@fe...]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 12:06 PM
>
>> I also got such message. I don't know if it's the same, but it was a
>> legitimate message sent from Sourceforge and
>> I answered it in the link provided in Sourceforge. I think that message is
>> just an attempt from Sourceforge to try
>> to make the current lists subscribers to sign in for other news letters
>> and services from Sourceforge.
>
> It might be even worse than that. My understanding is that a new contract
> for signing in to the lists is being accepted
> by the user who responds. Or am I wrong here?
>
>> It is very
>> inconvenient and I hope they don't refresh our list membership removing
>> those who didn't reply!
>>
>
> The mail which I got, too, explicitly announces removal from the lists in
> case one does not reply, giving a deadline in
> my case of June 29. I also thought 3 times before replying, but finally I
> did. One should think ahead of time about how
> to deal with mass removals, which are likely to come up.
>
>> My opinion is that we (list administrators) should save a list of the
>> current members so we can reset it in case
>> they do some mass removal.
>>
>
> ... if sourceforge allows such a centralized resetting at all.
>
> Best regards,
> Roland
>
>
>
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Re: [Maxima-discuss] Posible phising email

[Richard F. <fa...@be...>]

I would not click there either.

But you can do what I did,  which is to
visit sourceforge.net  and log in and (re?) subscribe
to whatever. Just in case.
RJF

Re: [Maxima-discuss] Posible phising email

[Roland S. <sal...@gm...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Fateman [mailto:fa...@be...]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 7:16 PM
> 
> I would not click there either.
> 
> But you can do what I did,  which is to
> visit sourceforge.net  and log in and (re?) subscribe to whatever. Just in case.
> RJF
> 

Doing this (which I did, too,) you end up exactly on the same page that clicking on the link would have carried you to!

Roland

Re: [Maxima-discuss] Posible phising email

[Bruce & B. R. <br...@dc...>]

As I have three different lists I use through sourceforge, I got a 
single email asking to confirm all three. When logged onto sourceforge, 
the same request was available. I did the confirmation as a matter of 
course through my sourceforge account.

I have had this happen about three or four times over the last maybe 
decade for the various lists I am interested in.

regards

Bruce Rennie
On 15/06/17 20:06, Jaime Villate wrote:
> On 15-06-2017 10:51, John C Frain wrote:
>> I have received an email asking me to confirm my subscription to a 
>> maxima list through a link in the email. I have deleted it as I woUld 
>> any similar email, Perhaps some one could confirm that this is so and 
>> warn orther list members
> Hi,
> I also got such message. I don't know if it's the same, but it was a 
> legitimate message sent from Sourceforge and I answered it in the link 
> provided in Sourceforge. I think that message is just an attempt from 
> Sourceforge to try to make the current lists subscribers to sign in 
> for other news letters and services from Sourceforge. It is very 
> inconvenient and I hope they don't refresh our list membership 
> removing those who didn't reply!
>
> My opinion is that we (list administrators) should save a list of the 
> current members so we can reset it in case they do some mass removal.
>
> Best regards,
> Jaime
>
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Re: [Maxima-discuss] Posible phising email

[Gunter K. <gu...@pe...>]

My question would be now if the new contract is much worse than the original one was: often these changes are driven by external events that make internet firms try to defend themselves without any intention to limit the rights of the users. And sometimes they really are a try to make things less complicated. Other times, though, they prepare big changes instead...
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