[extropy-chat] Monkey business

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Mon Feb 26 16:28:20 UTC 2007


On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:07:34AM -0500, Keith Henson wrote:
> This morning I got a message from the mailing list software that I had sent 
> a request to get off the list.
> 
> I didn't do that, so it's malicious.

It is almost certainly a dumb zombie sending out mail
as you to sundry addresses, including the email interface
to MailMan. Do you get any other blowback (check the spam
folder)?
 
> If the list administrators could send me a copy of that message, it would 
> be *most* interesting to see where it originated.

Maybe Mailman has a log somewhere (I doubt that, though, it only
keeps track of joins/leaves), but if it gives you an IP in Korea
you're none the wiser.

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