[UCIMC-Tech] [Imc-bookkeeper] Paypal List

[Mike Lehman]

  Since it's been nothing but a nuisance, I'd say it's easier just to 
pull the plug.
Mike Lehman

On 9/10/2010 1:41 PM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
> So it was intended to really only receive email from one address- the
> official paypal notification? and then of course send to a list of
> folks who might login to check.
>
> If that's still useful, perhaps we could reconfigure the list to only
> take messages from that specific address.
>
> OF course if you want to just drop the list, I'll go ahead with that.
>
> -Chris
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Mike Lehman<rebelmike at earthlink.net>  wrote:
>>   Who? Just me, AFAIK, at this point, but I've turned off getting notices to
>> myself. It originally was simply a means to notify Finance and fiscally
>> sponsored groups when Paypal funds arrived. Over the years, whatever hack
>> applied to send the email notifications became obsolete and we gradually got
>> to the point where most Paypal funds did not generate a proper notice when
>> submitted.
>>
>> The info on it, even when it worked, was all duplicated inside our Paypal
>> account, so it is no actual consequence to Finance. And our fiscally
>> sponsored groups haven't used it in some time.
>>
>> What's happened is the any email with "paypal" as part of the address
>> attracts lazy scammers, who think that they're finally going to find a sap
>> at the other end of the line, despite ten of thousands of previous attempts
>> at exactly the same thing having failed. There no way that it's worth
>> moderating the 1,000s of spams to find the one or two legitimate
>> notifications that are valid.
>>
>> It needs to have the archive preserved, but to quit accepting any new mail.
>> Mike Lehman
>>
>> On 9/10/2010 6:26 AM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
>>> who is on it and what was it's original intent?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Mike Lehman<rebelmike at earthlink.net>
>>>   wrote:
>>>>   We discussed shutting down the IMC-Paypal list, but that never got any
>>>> further. We're up to 5,000+ messages held in there and the error messages
>>>> this generates everyday to IMC-Info are up to 800kb.
>>>>
>>>> Just saying,
>>>> Mike Lehman
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