Re: [ilugd] Laxmicharan Samineni would like to add you as a friend on Skoost
On Tuesday 20 Apr 2010, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > 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? Interesting... let me check... Right you are, sko...@skoost.com was subscribed, probably when the mailing list had to be resurrected from its ashes. Unsubscribed as we speak. And thanks for the implicit list admin pester. If enough people make a noise things happen, otherwise it's too easy to let them slide. Not that list admin is my job anyway! Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Laxmicharan Samineni would like to add you as a friend on Skoost
-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
Re: [ilugd] Laxmicharan Samineni would like to add you as a friend on Skoost
On 20 April 2010 17:08, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > > 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 would have expected very amusing emails to wind up on the mailing list in that case. > > 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? > Hadn't noticed the sender's address in this case. It is curious. The ones I had examined earlier had the email id of the 'victim' as the sender. Regards Anil ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Laxmicharan Samineni would like to add you as a friend on Skoost
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? -Taj. ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Laxmicharan Samineni would like to add you as a friend on Skoost
On 20 April 2010 15:05, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > > On 20-Apr-10, at 6:35 AM, Laxmicharan Samineni wrote: > >> Abhinav Sachdeva >> >> We have a mutual friend on Skoost and I'd like to add you as my friend, >> Laxmicharan Samineni. >> > > It's a sad state of affairs that this feeblemindedness is so par for the > course now that it rarely warrants a comment. > > -Taj. > I do not know about this site, but I suspect that more often than not, it comes under 'social engineering'. A 'social networking' site has it easy if the password used for registering is the same as the one used for the mail account! Hence, 'feeblemindedness' is a bit too strong. A friend, who is quite well known in IT and Computer Engineering fell victim to such an error a couple of year ago. Regards Anil ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Laxmicharan Samineni would like to add you as a friend on Skoost
On 20-Apr-10, at 6:35 AM, Laxmicharan Samineni wrote: Abhinav Sachdeva We have a mutual friend on Skoost and I'd like to add you as my friend, Laxmicharan Samineni. It's a sad state of affairs that this feeblemindedness is so par for the course now that it rarely warrants a comment. -Taj. ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Laxmicharan Samineni would like to add you as a friend on Skoost
Abhinav Sachdeva We have a mutual friend on Skoost and I'd like to add you as my friend, Laxmicharan Samineni. To accept me as a friend, follow the link below: http://www.skoost.com/social/?pid=7369866&eml=il...@lists.linux-delhi.org&fid=7137535&blk=0&pge=12 Skoost ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
