On Mon, Jan 23, 2017, at 17:57, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On 23 Jan 2017 21:30:20 +0000, "John Levine" said: > > > That led to great merriment, since that's Blue State Digital and mail > > from mainstream political groups went into spamtraps that tested the > > URLs, some of which were "Click here to donate now with your preregistered > > credit card!" Oops. > > OK, I'll bite. How did the mail end up at a spamtrap address in the first > place? Somebody maliciously signed the address up for a mailing list? > Or some other failure mode?
It could just as easily be poor bounce-handling or an inability to take no for an answer; politicians love to sell or otherwise distribute addresses, even ones that have been explicitly unsubscribed and also bounced for a substantial period of time. My uninformed guess would be that someone got cute, imported a years-old list from a past campaign as valid confirmed subscribers and got what they deserved. But maybe that's just my personal experience. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
