[Mailman-Users] 2.1.18 internal documentation suggestions

Larry Kuenning larry at qhpress.org
Fri May 2 14:27:54 CEST 2014


(Despite the subject line, this follows up a digression by correcting 
some mistaken information about an e-mail attack on AOL.)

On 5/2/2014 12:33 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> BTW, that blog
> [<http://onlinegroups.net/blog/2014/05/01/dmarc-taking-responsibility-sending-group-email/>]
> also says
>
>      The attackers succeeded in accessing about 20% of AOL users’ email
>      accounts and obtaining details of their contacts.
>
> I hope that means that AOL is now down to the 100 Stupidest On-Line
> Americans, of whom 20 were fooled....  But I digress.

What it actually means is that onlinegroups.net miscopied the percentage 
from the AOL blog!  The figure given by AOL is 2%.  (Discovered because 
I'm a compulsive looker-up of sources....)

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Larry Kuenning
larry at qhpress.org


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