Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 05/10/2008 11:58, Rob Clement wrote: >> Harold Fuchs wrote: >>> On 05/10/2008 08:39, mike scott wrote: >>>> (Everything snipped - can we put this subthread to rest please?) >>>> >>>> /IF/ a mailicious mail account has /everything/ forwarded to a >>>> target victim, there is no problem at all for the victim to >>>> unsubscribe the mailicious account from this list, even without any >>>> access to that malicious account. They do need to know the email >>>> address of the account. >>>> >>>> They just send an unsub email with that malicious address as >>>> sender. Because of the forwarding, they will receive the unsub >>>> confirmation request. They then reply to this. >>>> >>>> Job done. >>>> >>>> >>> I think that's right but what puzzles me is how to subscribe some >>> else in the first place. When one subscribes one receives the same >>> sort of "please confirm" message as one gets when one unsubscribes. >>> So if *you* tried to subscribe *me*, I'd get the "please confirm" >>> message and just wouldn't do it. Would someone please explain what >>> I'm missing here? >>> >>> >> Harold >> >> If you look at the thread, someone created a gmail account with this >> person's name. This someone then registered with [email protected] >> to get all the e-mails to gmail and then forwarded the e-mails from >> gmail to his other address. > ".. his other address" ??? I think you meant the victim's address ??? > > Ah. If I forward this list's mail to someone then that person can't do > anything about it. Unsubscribing won't help because the person > wouldn't be subscribed; may never even have heard of OpenOffice.org. > This list won't know anything about the person. > >> What confuses me is that you have to agree to receive e-mail at the >> non-gmail address, > Do you? How come? I can set a filter in Thunderbird to forward mail > somewhere. I don't think the "somewhere" has any say in the matter. I > think I can do the same from gmail. And it wouldn't have to be a > "non-gmail" address. > >> so either it is seomone close to him or he has been very careless. > I don't think either of those is right. I think all the perpetrator > needs to know is the victim's "real" e-mail address. I think the > victim of this is actually powerless to prevent it. I think the only > thing the victim can do is set up a filter to delete the unwanted > traffic. Please prove me wrong.
The solution would be to have a reliable contact for the list owner/manager, who can then deal with the situation. I'm surprised the moderator didn't pick up on "Chuck" as IIRC, all his posts were moderated. I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that the moderator would have some contact with the list owner. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
