*blinks*

3 Mar 2004 12:47 pm
karohemd: by LJ user gothindulgence (blofeld)
[personal profile] karohemd
I just got a message from yahoogroups to confirm my membership in the Austere_Howl group. I never send a subscription request, I don't even play Garou, let alone a Silver Fang...

Fuckers!

Date: 3/3/04 12:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twicedead.livejournal.com
I'll get you off, mate.

Date: 3/3/04 01:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twicedead.livejournal.com
Ozzy, I can't see you on any invited lists or otherwise. There's only two of use who've got admin rights, and I doubt the other guy's doing it... I have no idea how this happened.

Sorry.

Date: 3/3/04 01:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
I have no idea, either.
I can only imagine someone has a similar address to mine (it includes my membership number) and they mistyped it...

Date: 3/3/04 01:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twicedead.livejournal.com
There are no invites including membership numbers at all showing up in the logs... the last person to be approved was

dragon_wolf @ ...

and that doesn't strike me as being your email addy...

It could be some sort of spoof/spam mailing of a new and cunning variety.

Date: 3/3/04 01:09 pm (UTC)
chrisvenus: (Default)
From: [personal profile] chrisvenus
Yup. I'd suspect its one of these virus things. Somebody's computer activated it. It picked a from address from its address book (ozzy) and then picked a to address from its address book (auster-howl-subscirbe@ or whatever) and hence yahoogroups got a subscription request.

It requested confirmation for just this sort of reason and if I remember correctly it awaits that confirmation before it would show up on the moderator list (since there is no point worrying moderators in this situation).

That make sense?

Date: 3/3/04 01:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
That would make sense, yes.
It's actually a good thing that the confirmation is in place otherwise I'd now be in a group I don't need (or want) to be part of.

Good thing it wasn't some nasty adult group... ;o)

Date: 3/3/04 01:14 pm (UTC)
chrisvenus: (Default)
From: [personal profile] chrisvenus
This is precisely why its there. Its not just viruses that coudl do this. In theory anybody can send a mail seemingly from anybody. It means that if there is somebody I wanted to really annoy I could send 200 subscription requests to all the dodgy binary porn groups that probably exist on yahoogroups. Sad thing is that sometimes it works on some crappy systems. :)

Date: 3/3/04 01:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twicedead.livejournal.com
There's nothing in the logs inviting you either. This is pretty weird. You can reach me at twicedead@hotmail.com if you want to tell me what email address it tried to subscribe...

Date: 3/3/04 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kathminchin.livejournal.com
someone subbed to the UK child of gaia list once to spam it with pyramid schemes I think it was...

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