Wikimediaua has similar problem - 35 subscription requests from AOL

2018-05-07 13:09 GMT+03:00 Ragib Hasan <[email protected]>:

> Just noticed the same on the Wikimedia-bd list.
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> Ragib
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> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 5:08 AM KuboF Hromoslav <[email protected]>
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>> Hi there.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Any suggestions?
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>> Regards!
>> KuboF Hromoslav
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