Re: Automatic Reply from Trash

Re: Automatic Reply from Trash

[J Sloan]

How did this fool get on the list?

Joe

Trash wrote:

>Your message :- 
>  "Re: kfree_skb on hard IRQ c019aa41" on 	Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:32:48 -0800
>has been trashed.
>
>All e-mail from you has been barred permanently from 
>being received by any e-mail addresses at this site - 
>please take your spam and numerous mailing list to 
>which I have never subscribed and put them elsewhere
>

Re: Automatic Reply from Trash

[Alan Cox]

> How did this fool get on the list?

Seems he didn't - someone set up a deliberate relay to spew this list at him

Re: Automatic Reply from Trash

[Alexander Viro]

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > How did this fool get on the list?
> 
> Seems he didn't - someone set up a deliberate relay to spew this list at him

... or he procmails the traffic to alias that forwards everything into
script.

Re: Automatic Reply from Trash

[Alan Cox]

> > Seems he didn't - someone set up a deliberate relay to spew this list at him
> 
> ... or he procmails the traffic to alias that forwards everything into
> script.

Its a deliberate attack on him, people relaying lots of lists at him

Re: Automatic Reply from Trash

[Matti Aarnio]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:55:17PM -0800, J Sloan wrote:
> How did this fool get on the list?

  Person X subscribed address X' on the list, then set  .forward
  to the victim V, who chose rather nasty ways to "fight back".

  Lots of noice, very little data to help remove him.  When I
  asked specific questions directly from V, I got usefull data
  back to find the address X', though.

  How we knew who the V was ?  He called (by phone, it seems)
  Transmeta Hostmaster ("whois kernel.org") to complain and threaten
  (in good American Way),  not believing when he was referred to
  postmaster@vger.kernel.org, nor ever sending email to ask assistance
  from  postmaster@vger.kernel.org ...  Transmeta Hostmaster sent
  Cc/Bcc to vger's postmaster, and the V did answer when I asked
  him a bit of data to help me to hunt the route.

  The V did (amazingly enough) try to interact with majordomo, which
  naturally didn't find V's address in any list...

  Folks:  If you ever have hard time with VGER's Majordomo, do
  ask assistance from VGER's Postmaster(s).  Majordomo is rather
  stupid piece of software, we humans (try to) be a bit smarter.
  Of course FAQ-questions get referral to:  
        http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

> Joe

/Matti Aarnio