[sf-lug] MEGA Invitation

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jim Stockford (jim at well.com):

>     I, jim, had nothing at all to do with this.

I believe you.  But then we have a small mystery.

>     Note that I try to be particularly polite
> and responsible in using other people's stuff
> such as your machine (of which I am regularly
> mindful); my rule is to treat borrow stuff
> better than I treat my own, no carelessness
> allowed.
>     I'm interested in knowing of any clues that
> led you to think so.

Ah, that's easy to explain:  Because to my knowledge the only people
who've been told the listadmin password for sf-lug at linuxmafia.com are
you, the sole listadmin, and me, the owner/operator of the host.  Has,
perhaps, it been passed along to anyone else?

The spam in question arrived from a non-subscribed address.  Mailman is
configured to hold in the admin queue any mail having a non-subscribed
address in the 'From:' header.  (Admin setting 'Action to take for
postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined' is
set to 'Hold'.)  The non-subscribed address isn't in the small roster of
exception addresses permitted to address the mailing list without being
subscribed.

To the best of my ability to tell, therefore, the only way that this
marketing spam could have been transmitted to the membership is for
someone with the admin password to manually approve it from the queue.
Thus my comments.