On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:48:49 +0900 Stephen J. Turnbull
step...@xemacs.org wrote:
Perry E. Metzger writes:
BTW, I don't quite understand this. Why would splatting random
addresses at you help them? Why not just pick real addresses they
control? Successfully subscribing is easy, and
Perry E. Metzger writes:
have been significant academic studies of the market, and they
indicate that your portrayal isn't accurate.
I was incautious; smart spammers go back at least to Canter and
Siegel. What I should have written was spammers are greedy, but many
aren't too smart.
I
If you (Mailman site operators) have a spare moment, please try running this:
cut here--
#!/bin/sh
cd /var/local/mailman/logs
egrep pending [a-z]+ [a-z]+@[a-z]+\.com subscribe \
| egrep -v @gmail.com \
| egrep -v @hotmail.com \
| egrep -v @msn.com
On 06/09/2014 04:11 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
This is a first-cut, mildly sloppy script that will try to match some
patterns of interest that I've noticed in my subscribe log and that
might be in yours.
...
Here is what the last 10 lines of its output look like on my system:
Jun 06
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:01:19 -0700 Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net
wrote:
They are spammers attempting to subscribe to your list(s) via POSTs
to the web subscribe CGI. Presumably if they successfully
subscribe, they will then spam the list.
If you have Mailman 2.1.16 or later, you can mitigate
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:01:19 -0700 Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net
wrote:
They are spammers attempting to subscribe to your list(s) via POSTs
to the web subscribe CGI. Presumably if they successfully
subscribe, they will then spam the list.
BTW, I don't quite understand this. Why would splatting
Of Perry E. Metzger
Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2014 11:49 AM
To: Mark Sapiro
Cc: mailman-users@python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Bogus/forged subscription
attempts: request for comments and possibly data
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:01:19 -0700 Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net
wrote
Perry E. Metzger writes:
BTW, I don't quite understand this. Why would splatting random
addresses at you help them? Why not just pick real addresses they
control? Successfully subscribing is easy, and generating seemingly
random addresses won't get them subscribed since the addresses will
At Mon, 9 Jun 2014 21:48:38 -0400 Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:01:19 -0700 Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net
wrote:
They are spammers attempting to subscribe to your list(s) via POSTs
to the web subscribe CGI. Presumably if they successfully
subscribe,
