[freespace2] Security Update Of Your Account

[Ryan C. Gordon]

> I'll go figure out how the hell this got to the mailing list...

My guess is some virus-of-the-week sent an email to freespace2-subscribe 
from a spoofed service at paypal.com address (since many viruses now pulled 
the to and from addresses from a person's address book, many of which 
are overzealous about collecting every address ever seen). The list 
replies to service at paypal.com with a "please reply to confirm you want 
to subscribe" email...and service at paypal.com replies with an automated 
response, making the freespace list think it really confirmed the email.

This has actually happened before, so it's not so far-fetched.

Once the address was on the list, the spoofing email address from 
service at paypal.com goes through without a fight.

Then again, service at paypal.com (the real one) didn't ever autorespond to 
traffic on the list, so who knows. I unsubscribed the address.

--ryan.