Other than those atypical settings themselves, I've found no reason for them to be there. In my checking, here's what I found - and what just wasn't there to be found:
Well ...
nothing that I recall ... but wetware uses rather lossy compression ...
Searching 'da Interwebs - with demangling of said last name and balug - some search hit results, but nothing seeming of particular relevance.
Doing a rather thorough search on the filesystems on the one host that may have relevant data (has lots of BALUG archive stuff - including list stuff that's no longer on The Internet) ... overly broad search, excess privilege [8-O] ... but human time efficient and can thin out what's not relevant ... and ... # find /usr /var /home -xdev -type f ! -size 0 -exec fgrep -li [REDACTED] {} ; /var/lib/dokuwiki/acl/users.auth.php.BAK/rosters/BALUG-Announce.membership_2015-01-06 /home/balug/e-mail_lists/balug-talk/membership/RCS/membership,v /home/balug/e-mail_lists/balug-talk/membership/membership /home/balug/e-mail_lists/balug-announce/membership/RCS/membership,v /home/balug/e-mail_lists/balug-announce/membership/membership # So ... /var/lib/dokuwiki/acl/users.auth.php.BAK/rosters/BALUG-Announce.membership_2015-01-06 is fairly uninteresting - looks like old copy of roster - and mostly redundant with the other file hits. And checking the others ... I see said email address as having subscribed to the balug-announce list sometime between approximately 2008-01-02T17:22:14-0800 and 2008-02-08T06:18:41-0800 and having been on the list ever since (at least based on the approximately monthly roster backup copies I have). As for the balug-talk list, I show said email address as always having been subscribed - again that's based on approximately monthly backups, and that data goes back to ... approximately 2007-03-22T12:18:00T-0700. Also very possible that said email address was (semi-)automagically added to balug-announce if said address was subscribed to balug-talk but not balug-announce (looks like that policy was added around 2008-01-02T09:40:26-0800). I also checked ye oldest mail archive copies I have - that were long ago pulled from archive.org ... those copies are in individual files, not compressed nor tar(1)ed or the like - so if there were any matches for that last name string there, that find(1) would have found them. Interestingly, seems like there are zero posts from said email ... unless perhaps they were removed, or might be among the list posts I wasn't able to find/save/recover.
Does seem odd that said email address is subscribed to balug-talk and balug-announce, and I'm presuming no atypical settings there, yet was administratively blocked from balug-admin.
Checking (at least much/most) of my own email archives, I find only one email, and it looks highly innocuous (excerpted bits):
From: Rick [REDACTED] <rick[REDACTED]@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [BALUG-Announce] BALUG: No Dec. meeting, next mtg. 2015-01-20; & other news Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:44:13 -0800 To: Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu
Merry Christmas!
Thanks, rickd
On Dec 16, 2014, at 10:37 AM, Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu wrote:
BALUG: No Dec. meeting, next mtg. 2015-01-20; & other news
references/excerpts:
From: "Rick Moen" rick@linuxmafia.com Subject: [BALUG-Admin] A certain Rick De Gae tano Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:59:29 -0700
In reviewing the administrative settings, I see signs that someone might have powerfully annoyed BALUG admins, and I'm curious if anyone remembers the history.
This guy's name is first name Rick, second name that I'm writing with spaces inserted so he won't find this discussion if ego-searching his own name: 'De Gae tano'. (Remove the space characters.) His e-mail address is or was rickde gae tano@yahoo.com. (Remove spaces. Same reason.)
What I'm talking about is: 'rickde gae tano@yahoo.com' is the sole address listed as banned from subscribing to balug-admin, and also the sole address whose postings will be held for moderation on balug-admin. I removed the first ban, but am keeping the 'hold for moderation' one while asking if anyone remembers what this is about.
Mailman ban & moderation rosters, in my experience, accumulate some entries by accident, or by overquick admin action. It's useful to prune them occasionally.
Also on balug-talk, Rick D.'s address is the sole address whose postings would be held for moderation. I'm leaving that while waiting to hear why.
Basically, was Rick D. some sort of epic pain? What kinda pain? I'm really curious. (Tell me offlist if that's useful.)
There's an IT consultant in Burlingame of that name.