[Mailman-Developers] Mass subscriptions as a DoS attack

2020-11-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Alessandro Vesely writes: > Trolls can wreak havoc by subscribing to one or more high volume > mailing lists on behalf of a target one. > > Are there mechanisms to prevent that? Don't antagonize trolls. :-/ The subscription to the high-volume list itself can't be prevented by the victim lis

[Mailman-Developers] Re: Mass subscriptions as a DoS attack

2020-11-29 Thread Richard Damon
Discussion based lists tend to require subscription to post, but many support lists don't. Though I suppose the attacker would need to get subscribed to the support list to act on the confirmation message, which makes that path harder and less likely. One solution would be to add a 'spam' filter t