I have seen the same suspicious pattern for lists I help administer.

Thanks,
Pharos

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Ashwin Baindur <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Same for Wikimedia-In-En.
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Luca Martinelli <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I think is fair to say that all MLs are under attack, so let's discuss
>> the countermeasures. Do we want to temporarily global ban all AOL accounts,
>> at least those who try to subscribe? Is it possible?
>>
>> L.
>>
>> Il lun 7 mag 2018, 12:31 Axel Pettersson <[email protected]>
>> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> +1 for wiki loves public art. Hoping for a global solution.
>>>
>>> Bästa hälsningar,
>>> /Axel
>>>
>>> Den mån 7 maj 2018 12:28Gitartha Bordoloi <[email protected]>
>>> skrev:
>>>
>>>> Same issue in wikipedia-as. Can anyone please tell me how to block
>>>> subscriptions from @aol.com?
>>>>
>>>> On Mon 7 May, 2018, 3:51 PM masti, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> same thing on wikinews-pl
>>>>>
>>>>> masti
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07.05.2018 12:07, KuboF Hromoslav 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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