-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Sirtaj Singh Kang writes:
> On 20-Apr-10, at 4:52 PM, Anil Seth wrote: > [snip] >> I do not know about this site, but I suspect that more often than not, >> it comes under 'social engineering'. > The frequency and variation of these invites (esp. from well-known > sites like linkedin) suggests that that's not what this is. Much more > likely is people who've added people to their addressbooks with the > mailing list address as contact info. > I'm actually genuinely interested in understanding how this works. How > do the invites get through to the mailing list? Are all the sender > addresses (sko...@skoost.com in this case) subscribed? The original headers (esp. the 'Sender' header) of the original email are wiped-off/replaced by mailman, so I'm not sure, but to be able to post to a member-only GNU Mailman managed list, the address listed in the 'Sender' header OR 'From' header must be the member of the list. - -- They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJLzZ6WAAoJEMdGz6nnT6SwPX0P/jVEWPPJ/zShdXVLzih1fV20 B9hiqejixWFkS5pvWWnUp2ayjwisUtxTGKtnTEyyOqAZYsBnodGOxx2/1sU1RyQa vrBaS9SktRZ0siYWJl+v92B5EBpvc+el2wntHXpvU2yXIEw5efvepdWwxWN3bCFn C1SH5hpSjU9HpCD5OgtTiVPHVTK6l35CnYBv6IeKZ64E87wY6m/5Q9em8kpicozD 9yBwie0vAfhBoaQxlDukxZeO+aylSvM9mnbgxvAUZoB/r4wej3Z0jjoO98zCkNg+ uoHgxPoLh6CaAZ+g51/rCMkSkQookMOFr9JfFC9sTBtd4KdUuIOfGdDFG4vFau87 lU5a+0YkoPGx6goObHK+ig/u6E1jFVzabLjsSM5Z4JJTB0Ci0TP4Mlg2e99XM1sk DNkqN+LInUTRXqvLl/ZxgTOEsEkdfJS1MMCpEQj7d8mKDRbSKYinF7XbaoTfjE1M 4b/i0MMPqy+S/LsbWyITbJ+g2Ki917A59EGQ/beRMV4aZhnNTwwZXc2sCivy7L9w r+DiS7Sw8EhtUET5JUYY5W+5Ax6lkeIvzpmOWtgXX1Jy6k4dLJZD1gmW9dwfNNIq uu1RLD6rhj4w9st73gdxTyOGV/HlM5Z5S5do6qse1aBIa9yhQGmw2STi16hPbXFW WhHkEm+W+9XXtdIfcn1t =QD99 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
