My understanding form the cyber-folks at work is that replying will tell
the spammers it’s an active account used by a real person and they might be
trying to glean further useful information from the metadata on your
reply. They’ll already know that it’s a valid address as they scrub their
databases to eradicate the bounce messages if an account is not valid. (I
found out when I asked if I could send a particularly persistent spammer a
message about combining romance and travel and was advised not to.)
Cheers
Tom Wilson
Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 64, Issue
5
Even better is to report it as
Spam. Clicking Unsubscribe confirms that your address is a valid address -
whilst I am sure that Ponant are a legitimate business many less legitimate
people sending out huge numbers of emails to addresses which may or may not
exist - if you unsubscribe you immediately confirm that you exist and are thus a
better target in future (and if they are not a legitimate business they are
unlikely to take you off their mail list). Furthermore if you did not sign up
for Ponant but they got your address by buying a mailing list then as far as I
am concerned it is spam and to be discouraged - and if enough people report as
spam then they may find their ISP reluctant to deal with them in
future.
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 08:23, Michael Hunter
< > wrote: Unsolicited
advertising should be almost immediately terminated by clicking on the
usually very fine print saying "unsubscribe" or similar at the bottom of the
email.
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> 2. 2019 Sydney pelagic dates (Greg
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> 3. Re: Ponant Cruises (Anne
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> 4. last seats on 2019 tours (Advertisement) (Peter
Waanders)
> 5. White-throated needletail (Kirri
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> 6. Australian Swiftlets in NSW (Sandy
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 15:53:01 +1100
> From:
"Stephen Ambrose" <>
>
To: "'calyptorhynchus'" <>, "'Carl
Clifford'"
> <>
> Cc: "'Chris Lloyd'"
<>,
>
<>
> Subject: Re:
[Birding-Aus] Ponant Cruises
> Message-ID:
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> Hi John,
>
>
>
> I?ve not received anything from Ponant either. But a
friend of mine (not a birdwatcher) went on their Antarctic cruise about 3
years ago and there was an ornithologist on board who gave lectures and
identified the birds they encountered, so they probably have a bird list for
that cruise at least. I don?t know about the other Ponant cruises,
though.
>
>
>
> Stephen Ambrose
>
>
Ryde, NSW
>
>
>
>
>
> From:
Birding-Aus <>
On Behalf Of calyptorhynchus
> Sent: 4 February 2019 3:25 PM
> To:
Carl Clifford <>
> Cc:
Chris Lloyd <>;
> Subject: Re:
[Birding-Aus] Ponant Cruises
>
>
>
> If I got one
of these emails i?d Reply and ask to see the bird list for each of their
cruises.
>
>
>
> John Leonard
>
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 14:33 Carl Clifford < <mailto:> > wrote:
>
>
Yes, I have received a few. I guess they bought your address as part of a job
lot from a dealer. It is a not uncommon practice in the world of marketing. I
find the Ponant emails rather unsettling, as I would never have cash to go on
one.
>
>
>
> On Monday, February 4, 2019, Chris
Lloyd < <mailto:> > wrote:
>
>
I have recently started receiving unsolicited email from this cruise company
to an address I only use for private material. I am quite used to receiving
such email on a commercial email address including numerous generous offers
from various Nigerian agencies. I have asked the company where it got the
email address but have not been overwhelmed with the response. Have others
received such unsolicited material?
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> John Leonard
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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 07:41:59 +1100
> From: Greg McLachlan <>
> To: Birding Aus <>
> Subject:
[Birding-Aus] 2019 Sydney pelagic dates
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> Hi All,
>
> The dates for pelagic trips running out of Sydney during 2019 are
below.
>
> Saturday 9 February 2019
> Saturday 9 March
2019
> Saturday 13 April 2019
> Saturday 11 May 2019
>
Saturday 8 June 2019
> Saturday 13 July 2019
> Saturday 10 August
2019
> Saturday 14 September 2019
> Saturday 12 October
2019
> Saturday 9 November 2019
> Saturday 14 December
2019
>
> Trip information, reports and booking details can be
found on the web site.
>
> http://sydneypelagics.info
>
Cheers,
> Greg McLachan
>
>
> --
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>
*Sydney Pelagics*
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<0405-578-967> or David 0408 905 666 <0408-905-666>
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SITE <http://sydneypelagics.info/> | BOOKINGS
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> Message: 3
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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 08:02:29 +1100
> From: Anne Brophy <>
> To: Stephen Ambrose <>
> Cc: calyptorhynchus
<>, Carl
Clifford
> <>, Chris Lloyd <>,
>
> Subject: Re:
[Birding-Aus] Ponant Cruises
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> I receive emails
from Ponant but I believe that?s my fault as I entered a competition to travel
to the Antarctic with them...
>
> They do advertise with glossy
inserts in the SMH quite frequently!
>
> Kind regards,
>
Anne
>
>> On 4 Feb 2019, at 15:53, Stephen Ambrose <> wrote:
>>
>>
Hi John,
>>
>> I?ve not received anything from Ponant
either. But a friend of mine (not a birdwatcher) went on their Antarctic
cruise about 3 years ago and there was an ornithologist on board who gave
lectures and identified the birds they encountered, so they probably have a
bird list for that cruise at least. I don?t know about the other Ponant
cruises, though.
>>
>> Stephen Ambrose
>> Ryde,
NSW
>>
>>
>> From: Birding-Aus <> On Behalf Of
calyptorhynchus
>> Sent: 4 February 2019 3:25 PM
>> To: Carl
Clifford <>
>> Cc:
Chris Lloyd <>;
>> Subject: Re:
[Birding-Aus] Ponant Cruises
>>
>> If I got one of these
emails i?d Reply and ask to see the bird list for each of their
cruises.
>>
>> John Leonard
>>
>> On
Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 14:33 Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>> Yes, I have
received a few. I guess they bought your address as part of a job lot from a
dealer. It is a not uncommon practice in the world of marketing. I find the
Ponant emails rather unsettling, as I would never have cash to go on
one.
>>
>>
>> On Monday, February 4, 2019, Chris
Lloyd <>
wrote:
>> I have recently started receiving unsolicited email from
this cruise company to an address I only use for private material. I am quite
used to receiving such email on a commercial email address including numerous
generous offers from various Nigerian agencies. I have asked the company where
it got the email address but have not been overwhelmed with the response. Have
others received such unsolicited material?
>>
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>> Australia
>> www.jleonard.net
>>
>>
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lawmen (from Yorro Yorro)
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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 09:12:38 +1030
> From: Peter Waanders <>
> To: Birding Aus <>
> Subject:
[Birding-Aus] last seats on 2019 tours (Advertisement)
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> Hi all,
>
> Feel like boosting your life list this year? Or just great birding
in
> out-of-the way places with like-minded people? We have only 1 or 2
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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 00:17:27 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Kirri Hardy <>
> To: <>
> Subject:
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> Hello
>
> This is a message more specifically for Mike Tarburton for his
records
>
> About 8-10 WTNT's (not many) were seen this morning
flying above the road that leads towards Tyalgum/ out of Murwillumbah
NSW
>
> About 1Km from the Hare Krishna Community turn
off
>
> Kirri :D
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue,
5 Feb 2019 13:47:53 +1100
> From: Sandy Gilmore <>
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus]
Australian Swiftlets in NSW
> Message-ID:
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> On Saturday 2nd
February at 5.15 Eastern Summer Time between Goonengerry
> and
Repentance Creek, north-eastern N.S.W., I looked vertically and saw
>
about 100 Australian Swiftlets fly overhead about 30 metres above the
>
ground, on a ridge with a mixture of orchard and pasture and adjoining
>
slopes and gullies with regrowth rainforest. This appears to have been
the
> tail end of what could have been a bigger flock.
>
>
At first glance I thought they were martins but their wing profiles
and
> flight looked too swift like, and I then saw they were grey where
martins
> would be blue. All were flying eastward with substantial
gliding but
> occasionally one would spread its tail and slow rapidly as
though catching
> an insect.
>
> Half an hour earlier I had
seen greyish white flashes when looking
> horizontally about 250 metres
to the east of the sighting location, but,
> without my binoculars I had
no idea what bird species they could have been,
> although the
subsequent closer sighting suggests they may have been
>
swiftlets.
>
> It is tempting to speculate that the very wet
conditions in north
> Queensland had driven them further south than
usual.
>
> Sandy Gilmore
>
> Goonengerry, N.S.W.
2482
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