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DISCUSSION J Sloan 4 participants 5 messages Mar 24, 2002 1 message not in the archive

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How did this fool get on the list?

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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

#2 lore raw
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How did this fool get on the list?

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

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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.

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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

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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 [email protected], nor ever sending email to ask assistance from [email protected] ... 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

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Joe

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