I also figured it out independently, but knew that others also knew it and would work against the scam. ---- Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 2017-05-14 at 22:13 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> Unfortunately, he gave a little too much time window, and Aris >> noticed, and managed (maybe) to withdraw ais523's votes. > > I'm pretty sure Aris figured it out independently. Aris sent a > "testing" message some time before my messages, which strongly > indicated that e was checking to see how long an email would take to > reach the lists (or alternatively, checking to see that a cronjob was > working). Either's a fairly clear sign that a timing scam was planned. > > -- > ais523
