[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >The fact that at least 4 people from this list have already responded >that they too have gotten that same mailman confirm email from that >domain/list at about the time, as they recall, that they first >subscribed here and made their first post leaves no doubt at this point >that there is a connection.
I'm still a bit more skeptical at this point than "no doubt", but I'm open to the idea. >Again, I think they are simply identifying >first time posters to this list (and possibly other lists) and then >firing off a confirm email to them, probably in order to advertise their >site rather than to get anyone to join their mailing list. If by "firing off a confirm", you mean attempting to subscribe them to the list which then triggers a confirmation, I think this seems likely. So what do we have. Someone is somehow watching this public list and getting addresses of (some, all?) first time posters to this list and attempting to subscribe those addresses to some other list. There doesn't seem to be any security issue here. as this list is public and anyone can subscribe to it or visit its archive. The fact that both this list and the target list are Mailman lists may be relevant in some way (in the mind of the perpetrator), but it doesn't imply a Mailman issue. The annoyance factor is minimal. You get the confirmation and ignore it. Nothing further happens. The fact is when you post to a public forum such as this one, you are publishing your e-mail address to the world and you have no control over what's done with it. If you don't like it, don't post or post from an anonymous, disposable address. It doesn't seem to me that there is any security issue, Mailman issue or other issue here that we as a group can do anything about. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
