From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-11-25T08:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Anyone else getting weird flickr errors?

Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/24/06, Edwin Fine <efine145-nospam01@usa.net> wrote:
>
>> I also have the problem. I already sent Flickr (help AT flickr.com)
>> an email, but more probably wouldn't hurt. The thing is, is it
>> Flickr or something that got hacked (heaven forbid) on ruby-talk?
>
> Not sure.  I wonder if they require email verification.  If you could
> use ruby-talk as your email address, you could create this nice
> annoying problem for its users.

Yeah, that would be my theory as well.  Maybe some robot grabbed ruby-talk's 
address from a news server and tried to spam it (obviously not with with 
image spam since the message indicates there was no picture :-)).

Kind regards

    robert