As a side note..I got the message, assuming you mean the one indicating it
was from new service with account statement or some such.
Naturally, I did not so much as open the item.
seems like a broad list attempt, assuming this is the post you are
referencing of course.
Kare
On Sun, 11 Aug 2024, Andy Smith wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 08:25:09PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
How do you then explain that it lasted 2 days until i got affected
exactly after i challenged the (potential) troll by stating:
"although i seem not to be worth to be targeted by our bounce assassin,"
Between the first report by Greg Wooledge and this challenge i had posted
half a dozen mails. No problems were to see. Many others posted and did
not report unsubscriptions.
So why did this bug not affect everybody ?
I think it was either random sampling or threshold based on how many
bounce replicas were seen.
Note that anyone anywhere can send mails to this list pretending to
be from anyone, so if it were malicious then there is actually no
reason why it would have stopped. I think the broken subscriber was
simply removed from the list based on complaints to listmaster.
My theory is that it was exploited in a targeted way.
I can see I can't convince you that it wasn't a malicious attack on
you and a small group of others.
Nevertheless it's a fact that your most recent interaction with the
mailing list software was by a different route than the 2021
incident and caused by a different mechanism, namely GMX rejecting a
connection from the list software, and not anything to worry about.
Thanks,
Andy
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