An Email from teh Trinity Cat

andrew · 19-04-2011 09:39PM #1

So...the Trinity Cat has access to the undergrads mailing list?

Kwekubo · 19-04-2011 09:44PM

And she appears to have a tcd.ie email address. How delightful.

andrew · 19-04-2011 09:45PM

Someone please make an appropriate lolcat macro.

Kwekubo · 19-04-2011 09:56PM

TouchingVirus · 19-04-2011 09:57PM

Poor enough restrictions on the undergrads mailing list :P

KTHX!

zam · 19-04-2011 10:01PM

Fabulous

Ahoyhoy · 19-04-2011 10:19PM

This is BRILLIANT

gaybitch · 19-04-2011 10:40PM

Someone smart and/or 1337 explain to me how this came to pass

TakeTheVeil · 19-04-2011 10:48PM

Sent to the postgrad list too.. fantastic

Postgrad email list couldnt possibly be just "postgrads@tcd.ie" is it?

Ahoyhoy · 19-04-2011 10:49PM

Prendergast did it. He's trying to get in with the students by making friends with the popular people on campus, like Trinity Cat.

TakeTheVeil wrote: »

Sent to the postgrad list too.. fantastic

Postgrad email list couldnt possibly be just "postgrads@tcd.ie" is it?

That is the e-mail address but the address you send the e-mail from has to be on a list of approved e-mail addresses that is assembled by ISS. This has to be a Computer Science Scholar/Postgrad/Lecturer/Genius.

Sir Ophiuchus · 19-04-2011 10:50PM

andrew wrote: »

So...the Trinity Cat has access to the undergrads mailing list?

And a keyboard, apparently. And fingers.

languagenerd · 19-04-2011 10:53PM

Haha I had to look at that email twice to make sure I wasn't imagining things.

Reckon it was a hack or have the IS Services guys just lost it? :P

timmywex · 19-04-2011 10:58PM

This email is amazing!

Also its amazing how it got sent! Bet ISS wont be happy

Its either an inside job from ISS somewhere, someone very smart from computer science or someone from google potentially...

Daniakall · 19-04-2011 11:03PM

ISS inside job? =p

unknownlegend · 19-04-2011 11:03PM

I'm a postgrad, no emails of feline origin yet. :-)

Incredibly simple to make an email appear to be sent by anyone by the way. And all it needs to be sent to is the correct user list and voila.

Edit: puuuurrrrrrrrr!

Ron DMC · 19-04-2011 11:09PM

unknownlegend wrote: »

I'm a postgrad, no emails of feline origin yet. :-)

Incredibly simple to make an email appear to be sent by anyone by the way. And all it needs to be sent to is the correct user list and voila.

Edit: puuuurrrrrrrrr!

Well, that isn't the case, because it wasn't spoofed to look like it came from someone on the approved list, and that wouldn't work anyway because ISS use SPF.

But the email does appears to come from trinity.cat which isn't even a valid email address, so clearly a combination of spoofing and some kind of way of getting around the approval list must have occured.

Quite the accomplishment, though a waste of an email, there's so much that could have been said instead.

Ahoyhoy · 19-04-2011 11:15PM

Ron DMC wrote: »

there's so much that could have been said instead.

I don't think it would have been anywhere near as popular if they had tried to put in anything besides lolz, plus any recriminations for whoever did it would probably be worse. I reckon less is more.

Also thanks for the details!

timmywex · 19-04-2011 11:16PM

Ron DMC wrote: »

Well, that isn't the case, because it wasn't spoofed to look like it came from someone on the approved list, and that wouldn't work anyway because ISS use SPF.

But the email does appears to come from trinity.cat which isn't even a valid email address, so clearly a combination of spoofing and some kind of way of getting around the approval list must have occured.

Quite the accomplishment, though a waste of an email, there's so much that could have been said instead.

Why isnt trinity.cat a valid address? Surely the same as firstname.lastname@tcd.ie or similar? Tried sending a reply and it did seem spoofed however, or the account had already been deleted!

andrew · 19-04-2011 11:17PM

I hope whoever did it is reading this thread. Well done, whoever you are.

dan719 · 19-04-2011 11:24PM

It was me.

Lol JK I can't even turn on a pc sometimes.

So, does anyone have any educated guesses to how this was done?

gearoidof · 19-04-2011 11:24PM

There's beauty in brevity, Misteil

tolosenc · 19-04-2011 11:25PM

OMFG. This is fantastic...

unknownlegend · 19-04-2011 11:26PM

SPF has plenty of flaws and SMTP doesn't need a valid email address, any characters will do.

lost_soul · 19-04-2011 11:40PM

It's actually really really simple to do if they did it they way I know. It just takes a bit of luck stumbling across where to do it form.

Daniakall · 19-04-2011 11:47PM

lost_soul wrote: »

It's actually really really simple to do if they did it they way I know. It just takes a bit of luck stumbling across where to do it form.

Vague and suggestive.
I'm dubious. =p

TrollHammaren · 19-04-2011 11:49PM

I'd rather not know who did it or how it was done - it's a lot more magical to think of a hypersapient cat with poor English advocating a change in timetables for us undergrads. :pac:

cookiemonst3r · 19-04-2011 11:52PM

SOGOOD

Daniakall · 19-04-2011 11:56PM

If nothing else, this served as a nice little pre- exam morale boost. Something to talk about... Possibly with far reaching implications though, I wonder how ISS will react.

TrollHammaren · 19-04-2011 11:58PM

Daniakall wrote: »

If nothing else, this served as a nice little pre- exam morale boost. Something to talk about... Possibly with far reaching implications though, I wonder how ISS will react.

I reckon the only thing that will come of this will be a slap on the wrist.

The Black Oil · 20-04-2011 06:45AM

The first move by Skynet? >.<

Denerick · 20-04-2011 08:40AM

Can someone post up the email??

An Email from teh Trinity Cat

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