[Fwd: Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from petsupermarket@uol.com.br?]

From: Mike McCarty (mike.mccarty_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 11/18/05

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    Carl Fink wrote:
    > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:25:16PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Let's find the cause, find the reason for the challenges, and then
    >>act.
    >
    >
    > Let's ask the listmasters why this account wasn't unsubscribed within hours
    > of this stupid misconfiguration.
    >
    > I manage multiple mailing lists myself, and I promise I'd never let things
    > get as silly as this.

    AIUI, there are two problems at least

    (1) someone (probably ignorantly) subscribed in a way which causes
    this challenge/response "anti SPAM" facility to send these messages,

    (2) UOL is stripping the information necessary to find out who did
    this, so the listmaster *can't* know which account to scrub.

    The two problems work together to create a balls-up, but they
    require different solutions, don't you think?

    Mike 

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