Jason Hunter wrote:
Thanks to everyone who let us know about the "terrance melton carver"
user generating lots of mails to the [email protected] list. We've
stopped the traffic, and we want to apologize.
The mails were the result of a coding error, not a malicious person.
The "terrance" account was designed to silently listen to the mailing
list in order to produce an archive record for markmail.org. The
account was not designed to send email. The only time it is allowed
to send email is to (a) confirm its subscription and (b) confirm its
unsubscription.
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The other big mistake was using the name of a real person for the mail
account. It should have been something like "Aloysius Q. Mailbot".
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