On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Florin Iucha wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:48:30AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
>>> Hrm, if you look, he's apparently using PHPmailer to send these
>>> through gmail.
>>
>> He has posted it to dozens of lists:
>>
>> http://search.gmane.org/?query=facebook+app&author=Deepan
>>
>> Apparently, Facebook developers are paid by Facebook when their apps are
>> used.  Nice model, but it does push developers to advertise.
>>
>> Should he be blocked from posting in the future?
>
> Yes he should be blocked, using all possible e-mail accounts he might
> ever register.  Oh, wait...


He seems to have used the codeshepherd at gmail.com address for all of his 
spam and non-spam:

http://www.codeshepherd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=29
http://search.gmane.org/?query=facebook+app&author=Deepan

I don't think he's using a bot to subscribe.  Besides, it can't be all 
that easy to spam us this way or more people would be doing it.

On the other hand, he does send good spam!  This is his web page:

http://www.codeshepherd.com/

So I don't really care all that much about blocking him.  Maybe his next 
message will be about one of his FOSS projects and I'll wish I had seen 
it.

Mike