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Old 08-07-2011 at 01:50 PM   #31
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I got them too. It was sent to everyone on the First Generation emailing list. I haven't received anything in a while, hopefully someone closed the account.
Old 08-07-2011 at 02:39 PM   #32
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umm i know that alex... pretty sure its not him whose spaming, and yea i got those spams too mac def needs some security

btw as the first gen ppl said anything about this? like official news,

oh well, time to go delete 100+ emails
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Old 08-07-2011 at 02:41 PM   #33
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It was Alex Zhang. I got a little worried because I had 5 mutuals with him and thought I was hacked -_-
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Old 08-07-2011 at 02:43 PM   #34
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wait so that guy ^^ whose fb link is there in prev post, hes the one who started it and did it all? or was he the one that got hacked

also best email so far... a pic of a guys **** followed by a reply of someone face palming haha
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Old 08-07-2011 at 02:45 PM   #35
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wait so that guy ^^ whose fb link is there in prev post, hes the one who started it and did it all? or was he the one that got hacked

also best email so far... a pic of a guys **** followed by a reply of someone face palming haha
Hey this is Alex Zhang. really sorry about this whole thing I'm not really sure what's going on but my fb account was compromised and I'm guessing someone hacked it earlier and is sending spam on my account. When I tried to retrieve the account and reset the password it keeps resetting itself so I'm currently contacting facebook about the whole deal. I don't know why either but wen I looked at my e-mail accounts info it said that they attached the mcmaster first gen e-mail on my e-mailing list so I'm not sure what exactly is happening with my account. If you could notify the rest of the people on MAC first gen group that would be great thanks a lot and I'll try to get this solved ASAP.
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Old 08-07-2011 at 03:56 PM   #36
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Gmail is grouping a lot of the conversations together, so I only got about 25 separate emails. Sucks if you're using MUSS or Hotmail, because they'd all come individually and there's over a hundred.
Old 08-07-2011 at 03:57 PM   #37
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Yeah this is perhaps the dumbest thing I've seen in a while. I get back from a camping trip and my email is fisted.

The real question is... why does this wrinkled ballbag have an offical McMaster email account associated with his Facebook account? What an idiot.

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Yeah this is perhaps the dumbest thing I've seen in a while. I get back from a camping trip and my email is fisted.

The real question is... why does this wrinkled ballbag have an offical McMaster email account associated with his Facebook account? What an idiot.
Maybe he likes to floss.
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Yeah this is perhaps the dumbest thing I've seen in a while. I get back from a camping trip and my email is fisted.

The real question is... why does this wrinkled ballbag have an offical McMaster email account associated with his Facebook account? What an idiot.
...When I was in first year, we needed a valid mac email address to join the McMaster network.
I don't know if that's the case anymore, though
Old 08-07-2011 at 05:24 PM   #40
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I just found out about this now, got over like 100 emails. I only replied to like two ppl, didint know about this before my friend sent me the link here. So whats going on now?
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...When I was in first year, we needed a valid mac email address to join the McMaster network.


Yes, but he must have his own personal Mac email address. The only people as dumb as Alex are the ones still replying to the mailing list now. 'Please remove me from the list'. They're all so dumb.

So much for higher education.


Old 08-07-2011 at 07:49 PM   #42
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Now people are making fake email accounts and sending spam on purpose to the First Gen mailing list - which they can get in A LOT of trouble for.

If you're using Gmail, you can block emails by making a filter. Click "Create filter" at the top of the page, and put the First Gen mailing list address in the "To:" box.

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Old 08-07-2011 at 08:01 PM   #43
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and this one takes the cake hahaha... ( i hope i starred out all the swears but forgive me if i didnt )

"""""
im going to control my anger here when i speak.
to the next mother****** who sends out an email to EVERYONE that is this address ([email protected] .ca) you gona wish that you never done that.

you know why? im going to take your ******* email, put it in all the p*** website, all other ads,
and also to SPAM GENERATOR such as spam o matric.

what do these programs do? they send out emails after emails after emails after emails....
again and again and again...to your fuking inbox...

whats so great about this? it never mother******* goes into ur junk mail!!!.....and it keeps coming in from different email....


so this is ma ******* last warning.....

if u want to ******* reply....find out the person who replied....take his or her INDIVIDUAL email...and just send it to ONLY THAT PERSON ALONE..

by replaying all...or by sending it to this email: [email protected] .ca you are sending it to alll the people...

swear to god....i will do it....i knw u aint no mother****** kids....so dont u ******* take me for just trying to scare u pussies...

one more time...just one more time...any1 it is....watch it!!!!


had enof.... and if u dont mind me misusing ur ******* email.....mother***** *...ill hack ur account....

u think im bluffing? google search it....and i will do it..ma friends did that to me as a prank and will ask them to
hack each and every mother****** who replies it....


im dead serious....

test ma patience now motherufckers... """""""""""
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Old 08-07-2011 at 08:50 PM   #44
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Solution Here For Gmail Users>>
OP please add my post to your first post so others can find this quicker.

Solution: Add a filter which excludes all email sent TO "[email protected] .ca".


SOLUTION HERE FOR GMAIL USERS>>

1.Go to Top Right corner gear icon
2.Select "Mail Settings"
2.Select "Filters" tab
3.Select "Create new filter"
4.In the "To:" input box add the following: "to [email protected] .ca" (without quotations of course)
5.Click "Next Step"
6.Select "Delete" and "Skip the Inbox (Archive it)"
7.Hit "Create New Filter"
8.You're Done


You can add a filter to delete all message sent to "[email protected] .ca", which is then subsequently forwarded to everyone on the mailing list, this won't solve the problem, but it'll save you from having to go through hundreds of useless emails. I'm hoping this is a technical issue and not a behavioural experiment from the psych department lol.

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