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On Vi, 08 oct 21, 13:55:15, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> I'm still curious about what's actually happening here.  Perhaps nobody
> on this list knows, which is understandable, but if someone does
> happen to know the details, I'd like to hear them.
> 
> What I know so far is that someone at ovh.net is subscribed to debian-user
> and has set up an auto-responder.  Every time they receive a message from
> the mailing list, they generate a response message.  This response message
> is sent with an envelope sender (MAIL FROM) address of
> postmaster@vps268904.ovh.net and the same address in the From: header.
> The Postfix MTA at bendel.debian.org logs receipt of the message from
> "vps268904.ovh.net (mail.data3v.com [51.254.223.75])" according to
> the Received: header which it adds.  The response message has the Subject:
> header "**stop**".
> 
> The body of the response message begins with the email address of the
> person who sent the responded-to message, in angle brackets.  Then a
> colon, a space, and a copy of the original Subject: header.  Then a
> newline, then about 128 bytes (I didn't count, just approximating) of
> the original message's body, another newline, and finally the text
> "Please stop the message. we have already unsubscribed our email address."
> 
> (This sentence is clearly untrue.)

Wild speculation: some subscriber with the domain (and e-mail) hosted at 
ovh set up some auto-responder annoyed by the apparent lack of reaction 
to (probably unsuccessful) their unsubscribe attempts.

From their perspective Debian is the spammer :(

Kind regards,
Andrei
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