On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 12:01 -0500, Ken Causey wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 15:49 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > On 20.08.2009, at 15:01, richard snow wrote:
> > 
> > > can we get this guy off the list?
> > 
> > Already happened, 5 hours before your post ;)
> > 
> > The box admins reacted quickly:
> > 
> > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/box-admins/2009-August/000691.html
> > 
> > Thanks, Göran!
> > 
> > - Bert -
> 
> Indeed, thanks Göran!  I was fast asleep through the entire episode. ;)
> 
> It seems this spammer actually signed up or more likely stumbled onto
> the email address of a valid list member.  I'll look into it a bit.  I
> hope this is not a sign of things to come.
> 
> Ken

More info (times are UTC):

subscribe:Aug 20 07:36:10 2009 (31302) squeak-dev: pending
abolukoumiuas24601 <abolukoumiuas24601 at gmail.com>  81.222.64.211

subscribe:Aug 20 07:39:57 2009 (996) squeak-dev: new
"abolukoumiuas24601 at gmail.com" <abolukoumiuas24601>, via web
confirmation

post:Aug 20 07:45:51 2009 (8485) post to squeak-dev from
abolukoumiuas24601 at gmail.com, size=4089,
message-id=<255eaff50908200045q4d734302s194bf68ed1f10725 at mail.gmail.com>, success

In short, this person actually subscribed and immediately (6 minutes
later) started sending spam.  At least I hope this was a person and not
a bot.  Note that the email did indeed go through Google.

Ken
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