On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 08:05, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Scott Muir wrote:
> > It sounds like someone sent out a test emailing to all the subscribers
> > to see who the "offender" is, and I don't know what the result of that
> > test was. I also know nothing of what kind of access the maintainers
> > have to the list software but I have some ideas.
>
> I know of no such event. There *was* an attempt by one subscriber,
> using mined e-mail addresses, to find the culprit, but to no
> avail. AFAIK, nothing has been done by the list manager(s) to
> ascertain who be the culprit(s).
>
I received an email
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in December.
Would your filtering have seen the petsupermarket and dropped the message?
Or did this message only go to some subscribers?
> > I am thinking if the test email didn't produce any results, the address
> > it was sent from was probably pre-validated.
>
> Not likely. More likely, the list of addresses was incomplete.
>
The headers (in the test email) contained List-Id: <none>, so if someone was
forwarding only particular lists/emails to petsupermarket, then this might
not have matched the .forward rule.
Andrew
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