7 Mar
2003
7 Mar
'03
2:14 p.m.
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Dale Hooper wrote:
It was spam. Many of the lists on xmission were spammed with this - it wasn't the moderators fault. The perpetrator used a reasonable looking hotmail address. I know - because my list on xmission was also spammed.
Being a list managed with the mailman software, it would be relatively easy depending on the mailman software setup to automate a process which searched on google for mailman-style URLS. A mailman installation usually has a page which lists all the lists it manages. It would fairly trivial to write a bot which would find these types of lists, subscribe to all the lists on the list, and spam away, which is possibly what happened here. -- Dan Hanks