Michael Scheidell wrote:
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> Since we saw two of them come in pretty back to back, I suspect a joe
> job of sometype.  those people might not have subscribed.
That would be a bit tricky to just be a joe job. This list is confirmed
opt-in. i.e.: if you subscribe, an automated bot from ezlm sends you a
message that you need to reply to to get subscribed. Well, actually all
you have to do is send a second message to a different address that
contains randomly generated text as a magic cookie. But still, you need
to know that randomly generated address.

Of course, it's always the possibility someone guessed the random text
in the reply address.. but, good luck..

They start off a bit like this (note: I've munged the email address, and
changed the values of the magic text and serial number, but I have not
changed the length. I substituted letters for letters, and numbers for
numbers. Otherwise, this is the start of a real confirm message.)

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Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the
users@spamassassin.apache.org mailing list.

To confirm that you would like

   exam...@example.com

added to the users mailing list, please send
a short reply to this address:

   
users-sc.1244818352.jacibredcfjnkiobdtef-example=example....@spamassassin.apache.org

Usually, this happens when you just hit the "reply" button.
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