Jeff Vian posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:14:34 -0500:
> And just what does that difference have to do with it? The address for > the list was obviously harvested somewhere with a valid members address. > Anybody who is subscribed to the list can see the addresses of those who > post. As I posted to the devel list, where this also showed (it also showed on the announce list, which I thought was read-only for most??), I suspect a subscriber is infected -- that it wasn't a deliberate post but rather something automated. I'm guessing the mystery person is mostly a lurker so there wouldn't be much to be done to trace and warn them (there's very little I could make out of the headers as processed by gmane, but I'm not much of a mail tracer and someone getting it directly might do better). Of course, it's also almost certainly someone reading the list on MSWormOS, using a security-seive MS client with full HTML/scripting/ActiveHex turned on, who hasn't kept up with their updates... Remember that the list address would be stored in the address book like any other address. An automated malware spam spewer wouldn't know the difference, nor would the author likely care, particularly when it's delivered like any other mail to some who may not have incoming filters set up to sort list mail into separate folders automatically. The fact that it got to the announce list/group was interesting tho... Either poor Charles was experimenting with his MSWormOS PAN build again and has made the mistake of running an unprotected mail client and getting 0wn3d, or the announce list isn't as closed as I thought it was and it's only convention that has kept it free of posts... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
