Re: hackers/crackers

["Alex J. Sagady & Associates" <ajs@sagady.com>]

At 09:59 AM 9/6/1998 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, folks,
>
>      Unbeknownst to me, my subscription to dioxin-l was hacked, that is,
>someone sent in a bogus "unsubscribe" on my behalf. I've been working long
>hours at my "day job" (software engineering) and hadn't noticed that I
>wasn't getting dioxin-l emails. It happened on or around August 4th, which
>is when I posted the note about madcow disease...
>
>      This apparently happened to someone else on the list as well, and I
>don't think it's a computer glitch. (though who knows...just seems very
>coincidental...).
>

I came back from annual leave in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on 
8/20 to find, also, that I was not on the list when I attempted to post
an item.   I did not receive a LISTPROC unsubscribing message.

Sometimes list managers, when they have trouble delivering 
email to an account, will unsubscribe folks to avoid an 
avalanche of delivery error messages when the recipient or
their ISP is having trouble.   I don't think this was happening 
with my account, however.

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