On 20 April 2010 17:08, Sirtaj Singh Kang <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 20-Apr-10, at 4:52 PM, Anil Seth wrote: > [snip] >> >> I do not know about this site, but I suspect that more often than not, >> it comes under 'social engineering'. > > The frequency and variation of these invites (esp. from well-known sites > like linkedin) suggests that that's not what this is. Much more likely is > people who've added people to their addressbooks with the mailing list > address as contact info.
I would have expected very amusing emails to wind up on the mailing list in that case. > > I'm actually genuinely interested in understanding how this works. How do > the invites get through to the mailing list? Are all the sender addresses > ([email protected] in this case) subscribed? > Hadn't noticed the sender's address in this case. It is curious. The ones I had examined earlier had the email id of the 'victim' as the sender. Regards Anil _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
