[ih] more on bogus list unsubscribes

[jeanjour at comcast.net (John Day)]

I really doubt it is anyone who thinks we are that important.  ;-)

Some time ago, I saw that someone from outside the US had hacked a small town (pop. ~8000) hospital in rural southern Illinois.  Why?  More a question of Why not. This is probably more in that vein.  ;-)


> On Aug 10, 2015, at 02:30, James P.G. Sterbenz ???? ??? <jpgs at ittc.ku.edu> wrote:
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> On 10 Aug 2015, at 12:05, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> In that case, since the subscriber list is private, either it is a list
>> member who's doing it, or somebody who has extracted valid email addresses
>> from the public list archive, in order to fabricate URLs of the form
>> http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/options/internet-history/user%40domain
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>> It's hard to see a motivation* for this, so I still wonder whether it isn't
>> a software quirk somewhere.
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>> *I know that seeking for rational motivation may be a fool's errand.
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> Perhaps it is someone with an alternate reality of email history that wishes to disrupt this list?
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> Cheers,
> James
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