Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

David Andrews wrote: > >Is there any reason >to not let them do this? I think they are unscrupulous. I think that no one should archive any list without an affirmative opt-in request from the list owner. Further, my lists which answerpot has attempted to archive all have private archives. For so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

David Andrews wrote: > >So, at the risk of seeming stupid, what is it that they are trying to >do, or doing. Are they collecting addresses for spam, or what? If I >don't ask, I won't learn. As I said in my original reply, "It's answerpot archiving your lists." They ar

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating content to a new list

On Jul 15, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > On 7/15/2011 1:48 PM, Rob wrote: > > > I think there are two ways to handle this. Both involve making a copy of > archives/private/oldlist.mbox/oldlist.mbox and editing it (or perhaps > opening it with mutt or similar) and deleting those messag

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:53:39AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > bin/withlist -a -r add_banned -- '^.*[@.]apot(mail)?\.com$' Thanks for the heads-up. Only hit one of the five sets of lists I maintain, but still killed off. -- "Jim Hacker: What appalling cynicism." "Sir Humphrey: We call it dipl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

> When I wrote the amove, I hadn't seen my mmdsr report from yesterday. > Yesterday (actually, today, July 17, 04:44 -) I had 6 banned > subscription requests (2 each on 3 lists) from first.l...@apotmail.com > addresses. This time, there was no advance email. Their getting bolder > and even le

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

Mark Sapiro wrote: > >I eventually got a couple of subscription requests from addresses >similar to what you describe at apotmail.com. I discarded the requests >and added > >^.*[@.]apotmail\.com$ > >to the ban list of all my lists. When I wrote the amove, I hadn't seen my mmdsr report from yester

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

On 7/17/2011 10:38 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Mark Sapiro : >> I eventually got a couple of subscription requests from addresses >> similar to what you describe at apotmail.com. I discarded the requests >> and added >> >> ^.*[@.]apotmail\.com$ >> >> to the ban list of all my lists. Perhaps I'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

* Mark Sapiro : > It's answerpot archiving your lists. Aha. > In my case, they sent an email to the owner of one list about a week > before with links to opt-in immediately or opt-out with the no response > default being opt-in after a week with no response. I didn't res

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

On 7/16/2011 2:20 PM, David Andrews wrote: > > Has anyone seen anything like this and what does it mean. I run a > server with about 150 public mailman lists on it, and just got about 300 > new subscriptions to various public lists, from the same domain at the > same time. It is "apot.com" and t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

* David Andrews : > Hi: > > Has anyone seen anything like this and what does it mean. I run a > server with about 150 public mailman lists on it, and just got about > 300 new subscriptions to various public lists, from the same domain > at the same time. It is "apot.com" and the form is firstnam

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

* David Andrews : > Hi: > > Has anyone seen anything like this and what does it mean. I run a > server with about 150 public mailman lists on it, and just got about > 300 new subscriptions to various public lists, from the same domain > at the same time. It is "apot.com" and the form is firstnam

[Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

Hi: Has anyone seen anything like this and what does it mean. I run a server with about 150 public mailman lists on it, and just got about 300 new subscriptions to various public lists, from the same domain at the same time. It is "apot.com" and the form is firstname dot lastname at apot.co