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Subject: Probably prelude to a spam: getting on "oknames" list
From: Paul Hoffman <paulh @ imc . org>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 16:52:16 -0700
To: listmom-talk @ skyweyr . com, list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM

I believe that the following is probably a precursor to a spam attack. My
guess is this is an effort to get on lists by using the "oknames" list in
Majordomo. FYI, this worked at my site, so I've now had to change the
"oknames" file to read-only. <sigh>

I'm contacting abuse and postmaster at pobox.com.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium


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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:01:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
To: Majordomo-Owner@imc.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)

The original message was received at Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:01:32 -0700 (PDT)
from majordomo@localhost

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
oknames-approval

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 oknames-approval... User unknown
Message delivered to mailing list owner-majordomo
554 /no/such/directory/dead.letter... cannot open: No such file or directory

Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.proper.com
Arrival-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:01:32 -0700 (PDT)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; oknames-approval@mail.proper.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:01:32 -0700 (PDT)

Return-Path: Majordomo-Owner@imc.org
Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by mail.proper.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id
OAA17738; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:01:32 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:01:32 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <199704192101.OAA17738@mail.proper.com>
To: oknames-approval
From: Majordomo@imc.org
Subject: SUBSCRIBE oknames
Reply-To: Majordomo@imc.org

--

tv@pobox.com has been added to oknames.
No action is required on your part.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium



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