On Sat, 9 Dec 2000 20:51:07 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:

At 8:47 PM -0800 12/9/00, J C Lawrence wrote:

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The fact that the posts happened to be on-topic is slightly droll and beyond my ability to explain.

I've had that happen, and it was finally tracked to another list member who was pissed at the first, and attempting to ruin their reputation on the list. Don't downplay the underlying personal interactions and politics of a list, especially one iwth strong emotions, where otherwise mature people act like three year olds over a stale donut.

Yeah, that was my first suspicion and it really fit all the way up to the fact that two of them were actually pretty good posts that sparked useful and deep running threads, and the third was non-commital to the point of being ho-hum (technically on-topic, simply re-iterated prior traffic).

<shrug>

The members and I in each case just agreed to >boggle< and keep running without comment, under the suspicion that comment would only encourage the activity.

Problem is, I know how trivially simple it is:

$ dig python.org MX ... python.org. 23h47m13s IN MX 50 dinsdale.python.org. ... $ telnet dinsdale.python.org smtp HELO kanga.nu MAIL FROM: <insert member address here> RCPT TO: mailman-developers@python.org DATA ... . QUIT

(which in one case appears to be exactly what happened)

-- J C Lawrence claw@kanga.nu ---------(*) : http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--