[sf-lug] (forw) Re: Fwd: Your confirmation is required to leave the test mailing list

[Rick Moen]

So, Bobbie, here's a thing, ma'am.  You went _far_ out of your way to
post erroneous claims into public about my server, in effect, being a
spamhaus, claiming falsely in the recent past that the
"test at linuxmafia.com" sent you over 200 pieces of spam, even though I
explained what you were seeing last _December_ (the first time), and
even though you could easily see that what you were getting was _not_
from test at linuxmafia.com, and even though a cursory check at the mailing
list's HTML archive would have shown you _zero_ traffic on the Test
mailing list for _years_, now.  And no spam, ever.

In the wake of your making this gratuitous and very mistaken attack on 
the integrity of my Internet mail operation, a bit over a week ago, I
made a polite suggestion.  Do you remember it?  Here it is again:

  If you feel moved to apologise for (erroneously) maligning my operation
  in public, I'd be glad to see it.  But, whether you do or not, 
  _please at least check the archives_ before making such a public claim.

It's been eight days, and you've been just sending me pleasant and vague
but entirely non-responsive offlist stuff like the mail below.  I
gather, then, that you think you have nothing at all to apologise for?
That's the way this comes across.


----- Forwarded message from Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> -----

Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 17:25:56 -0700
From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
To: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Your confirmation is required to leave the test mailing list
Reply-To: bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com
Organization: 0

On 5/30/23 14:31, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):
> 
>> Rick
>> 	Excuse me for possibly addressing this improperly but I took no
>> action in regard to the test mailing list and have a large number of
>> similar posts repeating the same matter.
>> 
>> 	Bobbie Sellers
> 
> It's all spam, Bobbie.

	Well I may have been a member of the mailing list but when the Spam
keep coming in I did unsubscribe to the list.  I had over 200
emails yesterday and I don't really like to even let my trash get that
full.

	
> 
> (I note that you are _not_ a member of the "test" mailing list, and I'm
> pretty sure you have never been one.  It exists for technical reasons,
> as a place to send test postings.  Thus the name.)
> 
> Some bot is mass-generating e-mail or CGI Web submissions (or both)
> sending unsubscribe requests to Mailman, citing e-mail addresses that
> presumably got Web-scraped out of the mailing list archives for mailing
> lists.
> 
> It's malicious in intention, but harmless unless someone who _is_
> subscribed to cited mailing list is inattentive and thus agrees to the
> unsubscription without really wishing to leave the list.
> 
> It may be that the bot author is hoping to hit mailing lists configured
> to process unsubscribe requests without seeking confirmation.
> linuxmafia.com's Mailman instance always requires confirmation, before
> acting on such a request.
> 
	Thank you again for your reply, Rick.
	I hope all is well at your demesne.

	Bobbie Sellers


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