Now they've started adding an "u" such as squoon instead of sqoon. Sigh,
I'll create another regex rule but I don't discard doing as you said and
block for a couple of days all subscription requests. Thank you.

El El jue, 3 ago 2017 a las 11:29, Lodewijk <[email protected]>
escribió:

> We had the same thing in contact-nl (a closed mailing list too) a few
> years back. The only solution turned out to be a nasty one: adding ^.* to
> the blacklist.
>
> Lodewijk
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 11:21 AM, MarcoAurelio <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I've added another line to ban_list with ^sqoonart.* apparently the
>> regexes in mailman ain't multiline?
>>
>> In any case I doubt our list is the only one being affected so maybe we
>> can block those addressed for all the lists?
>>
>> El El jue, 3 ago 2017 a las 10:38, MarcoAurelio <[email protected]>
>> escribió:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Since a couple of hours I am receiving continuous subscription requests
>>> from addresses such as sqoon+random_characters@domain and
>>> sqoonart+random_characters@domain
>>>
>>> I have added to the ban list the following regex to stop them from even
>>> subscribing: ^sqoon.*
>>>
>>> But I continue to receive them.
>>>
>>> Any idea on how to amend the regex or outright block them from even send
>>> subscription requests?
>>>
>>> The list is metawiki-admins, a closed list.
>>>
>>> Regards, M.
>>> --
>>> M. A.
>>>
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