Re: [9front] mlmgr(1) wheeeeee

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On February 4, 2021 10:55:35 AM EST, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>so what's the .new one composed of?
>actual real subscribers?
>where does the hue .old list come from?
>and are the lines all unique so the mailinglist was spamming all kinds
>of unsubscribed valid destinations ?
>
>On 2/3/21, sl@stanleylieber.com <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:
>> 1ess; cd /mail/box/cat-v                               1ess; wc -l address*
>>                                     1732 address-list
>>               1732 address-list.new                               37238432
>> address-list.old                              37241896 total
>>                         1ess; grep !cat-v-owner address-list.old | wc -l
>>   37236694                                               1ess;
>>
>> sl
>>
>

address-list is chmod +a (append only). when someone unsubscribes an exclamation point is placed in front of their e-mail address and appended to the address-list. when the list is processed, ! means don't send mail to that address. there were several thousand appearances of !cat-v-owner in the cat-v mailing it's address-list, but no appearance of cat-v-owner without the leading !. no, i'm not sure how they got there, and no, i don't *think* this would result in any action at all. strange, though.

sl