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[Justin P. Mattock]

On 05/27/2010 10:03 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Scott Sibley
>
> | I'm not sure why I'm spamming the list. Know how I can fix this? I
> | checked Gmail's settings; nothing's being forwarded through Gmail.
>
> You are/were not, even if your address appears in the Subject field, see
> below for the longer explanation.
>
> | What do you mean by "ticketing system?" This makes me nervous... My
> | mail's been going somewhere else?
>
> No.
>
> Let me explain what happened:
>
> Somebody managed to subscribe xorg@ to a «resell our service»
> system. How they did that, I'm not sure.  This system would send emails
> to everybody emailing xorg@ saying «Thanks for your email, we'll get
> back to you».  As they did not include enough identifying information in
> the «we'll get back to you» emails, I had to change the list software we
> use on freedesktop.org slightly.  What it did include was the Subject
> field from the original mail.  I made the mailing list software put the
> address of each recipient into the Subject field as it was sending out
> mails, and when I got the «we'll get back to you» email, it had the
> offending address in the subject field and I could unsubscribe them.
>
> The offender has been removed and all is now good, please go back to
> your regularly scheduled discussions. :-)
>
> Regards,
>    
cool!!

Justin P. Mattock
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