I am admin of a couple of mailing lists, I have noticed the same suspicious
activity from aol addresses. Only subscriptions for now.

Željko

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 12:07 PM, KuboF Hromoslav <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi there.
>
> On the lists "wikimedia-sk" and "wikimedia-sk-oznamy", where I am admin,
> we have received suspicious mass subscriptions (several tens in several
> hours). They came from nowhere, all with @aol.com address (very unusual
> for our target group) and all declared only first name. Most certainly some
> bot.
>
> Provisionally I have set them all for moderation. Eventually I could block
> subscriptions from @aol.com addresses (no too big deal, because hardly
> someone real in our audience is using them) but I prefer systemic solutions
> and not to cure symptoms. And possibly someone else here is running into
> the same problem.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Regards!
> KuboF Hromoslav
>
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