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Unsolicited!
Amid those emails from your TA and that club you went to once just for that cute girl, you may have noticed messages from mysterious aliases, lists-cc@columbia-listserv-cc.listserv.org or columbia@lists-columbia.listserv.org, inviting you to join an even more cryptic “Columbia Listserv.” While these emails may appear to be legitimate and the site claims to be “institution-sponsored,” CUIT gave us the following statement yesterday:
Columbia University Information Technology is aware of unsolicited emails received by students that promotes ‘Columbia University listserv’ or Columbia-listserv-cc’. This company has no connection to Columbia University and has now been blocked from contacting students via email.
If you have created an account on this site thinking it was Columbia-affiliated, we recommend you delete it immediately. That is, unless you want to grant Listserv.org the right to “use, copy, reproduce […] stream, broadcast or otherwise exploit” what you post. Remember, not everything that claims to be true on the Internet is actually true! For instance, here’s a video of a recent statement President Obama made on the POTUS Project.
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@AAA He wants become 2nd Mark Zuckerberg! LOL
@seems like nobody´s on team jacob
@pretty sure that’s a standard feature of wordpress. i did this wordpress blog with a friend back in high school and it let us edit comments. we didn’t have any reason to edit them, of course, but the capability is there. it’s a little unsettling, but i guess that anon is right: bwog brought this to our attention and only censored a couple of comments that could have gotten them sued or something.
@Claire We remove comments that violate our comment policy. This includes comments that contain sensitive private information about individuals. In this instance rather than removing the entire comment, we removed the sensitive information and left the rest of the comment. We never editorialize comments, only remove parts of them, or the entire thing.
@Lair We remove comments. This includes rate information in dual rat removing, sensitive information, and editorialize.
@Anonymous Looks like Bwog tried to stop the uncensored people — from bwog uncensored news on the side —
March 2nd, 2011: With the recent disclosure of the ListServ asshole, Bwog got smart and figured out how to trick us — they changed the content of the post without removing it, defeating our ID system. Rest assured we have a work around.
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So, the post is back up.
@Anonymous Wow. Does this mean that Bwog can directly edit comments with impunity? GRRRRRRRRRRR. Bwog is a bunch of happy-go-lucky really really nice guys that can go find a stranger in the alps! Dick cheneys.
@Anonymous Yea. It was no doubt some tricky shit.
And I think they’ve done this quite a bit before too.
Good thing uncensored finally caught onto it.
@Anonymous But hey — on second thought,
LET’S GIVE BWOG SOME PROPS FOR BRINGING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION
Uncensored is awesome for restoring the identity post, but Bwog is the real hero here.
And also, all of us commenters and complainers, I think, must be responsible for the website going down.
PATS ON THE BACK TO EVERYONE. Well done kidz.
@Domain is down!!! How can I delete my account :(
@Anonymous Also, here are the domains you wanna check out:
* dnxforum.com
* floraclassifieds.com
* muxlist.com
* neuralmesh
* yummypoop.com
Start your diggin!
@Anonymous Facebook search the email that “Jacob” keeps putting up. Some random Asian girl: no visible connections to Columbia or any other university for that matter.
P.S. Did you pose as Mark fucking Zuckerberg to trump your shit up on the site?
Hope his attorneys get wind of that.
@Anonymous Why do you think kittens do that?
Any animal psychology majors out here? Help me out.
@alex I figured it was some bs scam looking for you to use the same password as you do for cubmail and courseworks. I suggest you change your password if you signed up for listserv
@... google search:
oocities eternityax
LOL oh michael
@Anonymous Importantly,
http://www.oocities.org/eternityax/CV-condensed.doc
@Anonymous the next mark zuckerberg or miserable failure? you decide.
@you know what really irks me? when they make soft candy versions of hard candy. like life savers gummies? what is that shit? its like candy cross dressing.
@Anonymous I was about to sign up for this but then stopped just out of laziness.
@They're blocking They’re blocking anythig with boguncensored in it, which has the identity…
@Anonymous The trick is that you can’t just post contact information. You have to lead readers to it.
The people at AutoAdmit.com have figured out the identity of a poster on their forums that keeps on pushing this listserv idea. This person owns the domain yummypoop.com, and by using WHOIS, you can find contact information.
@Anonymous bwog uncensored, not bog uncensored
double you double you double dot bwog uncensored dot com
@i wish obama was a pile of kittens Anish, did you write this post?
@Anish Nope.
@Jacob I would sell my soul to the devil before I would ever scam anybody. This site is absolutely not a scam. This project is, and continues to be my pride and joy. I want to bring people together, not tear them apart.
Passwords, emails, and other sensitive data are always encrypted, so I don’t know who is spreading misinformation about that. Users’ information is completely protected. I would never do anything to hurt anybody or jeopardize anyone. I love this school, I love people.
I am an alum of this school.
I am a servant to this community.
@hmm Interesting how you failed to comment when Spectrum posted that your site was Columbia-run…
@Jacob Pinnacle across the street on 116th
@prove you're an alum Where do you go for pizza at 3am in the morning when you’re piss-drunk?
@Jacob You may email us at platynota at gmail dot com and request that your account be deleted. All accounts that are non-active in the next month will be deleted automatically.
I love my school, and I’m very proud of this school.
@ugh dude wth???
sounds so fishy to me…
@Anonymous If it’s smells fishy, and it’s not your girlfriend, then it’s a fish.
@Jacob You may email us at platynota@gmail.com and request that your account be deleted. All accounts that are non-active in the next month will be deleted automatically.
I love my school, and I’m very proud of this school.
@Anonymous Oh fuck no.
Do a Google search for the terms Autoadmit, ElGreco, and listserv. Apparently, the owner of listserv.org has been using a law school admissions discussion board to spam his venture. And ElGreco has a “colorful” posting history there. And there are repeated references to a Michael Ici Li, who, from the looks of it, is our guy (Columbia alum, web programmer, sounds douchey.)
@Anonymous Fuck, this is Greco?!?! I remember seeing all of his shit all over Auto a year ago. I remember now he was starting something that everyone kept calling a piece of crap.
@how to delete account? there is no option for this!
@I joined Listserv How do I remove myself from the site?
@I joined Listserv2 This^ is posed to Jacob.
@Jacon Hi Community, I’m the one behind the Columbia Listserv.
The site is not a scam. It is a legitimate site.
I am an alum of this school. I graduated in 2008. I love my school. I am very proud of this school, and I’m very proud of this community.
I could have handled the launch of this site in a better way, and for that I apologize. I was not in charge of the marketing of the site– merely the programming. The site is completely 100% run by volunteers such as myself.
I am not here to scam anyone, but rather, this is the result of hundreds of man-hours of work. The result is a legitimate product that is completely 100% non-profit.
Feel free to check out the site. You will see the hard work that was put behind it, and the benefit it serves the Columbia community.
–Jacob
@Anonymous The also owns yummypoop.com.
In his youth, I believe he played Magic cards. This was his favorite one:
http://magiccards.info/scans/en/wl/154.jpg
@Anonymous Fuck you for pretending to be something you’re not. I wish I had the time, effort, energy, and standing to sue the ever-living shit out of you.
@Anonymous Mistake number one: LISTSERV is a registered trademark. I wouldn’t be surprised if you get dragged into the ICANN Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy process.
Mistake number two: There is absolutely no disclosure of who the hell listserv.org is. Your “About” section is scant, the WHOIS domain registration is obviously falsified (435 West 116th Street is the Law School!) — I’m assuming you’re going for some facebook type thing, considering that all your lists are based on universities.
Mistake number three: When you say “in partnership with institutions of higher learning”, that implies that the administrations of said institutions are involved and officially sanction it. Obviously, judging by the response from the *official* channels of Columbia, you are not.
Also, stop saying that “sell my soul to the devil before I would ever scam anybody”. We don’t believe you. If you want to start people to believe you, make your website that doesn’t look like a scam.
@Jacob it’s not a scam, pighead.
get that through your head.
@People are know and respect and can talk to face to face sent us an email saying you were a scam…guy I’ve never meet vs. admin…hmmmm…let’s think about that for a sec.
@Anonymous Who the fuck is Jacob? One of your multiple personalities?
@LOL http://spectrum.columbiaspectator.com/spectrum/columbia-introduces-new-online-listserv-for-community-discussions
Wilfred Chan STAFF
From the website:
“Listserv.org was created in February of 2011 in partnerships with institutions of higher learning across the United States.”
In other words, the online platform is powered by Listserv.org, but http://columbia.listserv.org is a Columbia initiative. Also note that the email was sent out to the entire Columbia University student body and faculty mailing list (columbia@lists-columbia.listserv.org) which is maintained by the University.
So in response to your comment, yes, this is highly ‘connect to the university’.”
Don’t believe everything you read, sir. “if i read it on spectrum it’s a fact fool”
@B@B Army no, all our emails are public, if they wanted, they would harvest them all
@he added a correction which you conveniently ignored…
“Correction: Looks like I was wrong. Very sorry for the confusion caused. I thought it would be reasonable to assume any listserv with access to all student/faculty emails would be managed by the University, but clearly I was incorrect. Here is an email from the University to our editor-in-chief Sam Roth, clarifying that there is no connection between CU and Listserv.org”
@LOL That correction was added after I commented above.
@LOL no he didn’t. check the timestamp.
@B@B Army We are working on a solution now. They have been harassing us too: We do not forgive, We do not forget, expect us listserv
@Columbia Student b@b is the biggest group of self-aggrandizing losers on campus.
@Really? On Columbia’s campus? That can’t be right. Unless of course you’ve mistaken the meaning of “self-aggrandizing.”
@... if you put the password you use for your uni into it, change it now.
also, their whois records actually have columbia listed. slimey….as….fuck….
@hmmmm i can’t figure out how to delete it! help.
@Anonymous Same here. If anybody knows how, please let us know!
@Anonymous thank you for reporting, Bwog. Some people just can’t just “that blog shit” down.
@Anonymous get*
whoops!