Organizers' Collaborative

If you manage e-mail lists--i.e. if you do any kind of organizing--you may have noticed the growth of a new spamming tactic: the spammer subscribes to your list and then they send automated, "out-of-office" replies to your posts filled with info about their preferred product/content. You'll receive these bounces and may have to set your list management software to prevent these posts from going back to the entire list or to the sender of the original post. As someone who believes that e-mail lists are still very valuable forms of connecting people, this new technique is particularly galling!

For those in need of a general introduction to anti-spam techniques, see TechSoup's "Anti-Spam Solutions for Nonprofits". For a strategy to manage e-mail lists, see our note on the topic, E-mail Lists for Volunteer-based Organizations.