Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating ListOwners With Subscription Requests

2012-11-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Petersen, Kirsten J - NET wrote: > >Today I realized that all of the lists involved in this attack have their >subscribe_policy set to just "require approval" rather "confirm" or "confirm >and approve". So I think the theory that spammers were just trying to get on >the lists to harvest member

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-11-17 Thread Petersen, Kirsten J - NET
Gary, et al: The Mailman lists at Oregon State University have been receiving excessive request for subscriptions since mid-October as well. Our list administrators were suspicious because often the names on the requests did not match the email addresses. Also, many lists that had been defunc