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 -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
