Strange Messages from Amazon.com

[Ben Tilly]

On 1/18/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Ben Tilly wrote:
> > On 1/18/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> >> This is way offtopic, but has anyone else received messages like this?
> >> It's like someone signed their autoresponder up for the list...
> >>
> > Yes.  And I think that is what happened.
>
> How, though?  What about the confirmation?

A million ways.  The easiest is that someone signed up an email that
really is an internal email list, and then added the autoresponder to
that internal email list.

Cheers,
Ben