Cine-Asia, one more time

Joseph Murphy urj7 at ufl.edu
Mon Feb 27 15:43:40 EST 2006


Dear Members of Kine-Japan,
I wasn't following the Cine-Asia thread, thinking it was someone  
else's problem, and why should I concern myself with events that  
happen all the way around the world on that other operating system.   
Then today I got hit, 40 messages, including one person screaming in  
all caps that they don't read Spanish and REMOVE ME NOW!!!  And now I  
understand that it really is a global problem.

If I am repeating information, sorry, but this is the procedure to  
unsubscribe:
1.  click the second to the last link at the bottom (the last one is  
a yahoo groups link)
Para cancelar tu suscripción a este grupo, enviá un mensaje a:
CineAsia-unsubscribe at gruposyahoo.com.ar

2.  type unsubscribe in both the subject and text area.
3.  you will receive a message back as follows:

Begin forwarded message:
> ¡Hola!
>
> Hemos recibido tu solicitud de cancelar tu suscripción al grupo
> CineAsia. Por favor, confirmá esta solicitud
> respondiendo este mensaje. Si no querés cancelar tu suscripción a
> CineAsia, no hagas caso de este mensaje.
>
> Atentamente,
>
> El equipo de Servicio al Cliente de Yahoo! Grupos
>
> El uso de Yahoo! Grupos está sujeto a las http://ar.docs.yahoo.com/ 
> info/utos.html
>

4.  I asked one of our student assistants from Venezuela to take a  
look to be sure.  According to her, it is in a dialect that she can't  
place, rather informal.  What the message says is "please confirm  
that you want to cancel by responding to this message".  If you reply  
again "unsubscribe" you will get a message informing you that your  
cancellation is complete.

> ¡Hola!
>
> Este mensaje es para informarte que tu solicitud de cancelar tu
> suscripción a CineAsia ha sido completada.


Whether I just initiated the countdown sequence on a virus, we'll  
see.  Please be aware that some advise never to click on unsolicited  
mail under any circumstances, but I did get an immediate reply  
confirming cancellation.

It seems clear this is operating on the KineJapan list, but because  
we were not signed up in one shot, this seems to have characteristics  
of an automated program grinding away on our mailing patterns rather  
than an isolated "accident" or leak of the mailing list.

I would guess Cine-Asia either doesn't know what's happening, or used  
a tool that got out of hand.  I know enough Spanish to see that there  
is a lot of enthusiastic and informed discussion of Asian film,  
events, festivals, etc.  We have a lot of students here from Chile,  
Argentina, Venezuela, etc., and there is a thriving J-film and anime  
scene in the cities.  So I second Emilio Orby's concern that we not  
dump on what may be a valuable companion site because of this breach  
of etiquette, or worse because they aren't writing in the universal  
language.  If we ever clear this up, we might even consider a link to  
their site under "Spanish-language Resources."

Apologies if I'm repeating something already posted.
yours,
Joe Murphy





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