<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
*I know that seeking for rational motivation may be a fool's errand.<br></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Perhaps it's an ironic art project to protest the insecurity of the end product, ironic because of inflicting it on the Old Network Boys as they discuss the origins of the flawed network. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Collegiality does NOT scale. We know that_ we don't need to be reminded by that in microcosm. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">But if it be irony, the point is noted. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">But it's hard to infer irony with certainty when it could easily be a bad interaction between Mailman and some MTA's bounce message begging to unsub the recipient being mis-interpreted as unsub the sender of the bounced message; or some skiddie being a random nuisance because skiddie kan haz skriptz. :-/ It could well be a more evolved mistreant is using the unsub API on *multiple* mailman nodes to automatically vet email addresses scraped elsewhere for currency, and cares not which lists. <br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Re "private list", this list seems to have avoided having any unauthorized 3rd party archives. Several well-known list-aggregators are archiving a 'private' list i'm currently managing. [ Since they had years of archive before i even joined the list let alone took on management, i haven't unplugged them. Not much point in leaving the list private now but ... ]<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Normally i wouldn't discuss forensics on-list, but if it's Art, the Artiste may appreciate the hat-tip. And if it's not targeted but all Mailman, they're not listening anyway. <br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a> <br></div></div></div>
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