David Newman wrote: > >Don't know if this is a coincidence, but ever since rebuilding a Mailman >server that crashed last week and restoring the lists from archives, the >site admin address has received a few dozen bogus subscription requests >to lists on that server.
These can result from spam to the LIST-subscribe and/or LIST-join addresses. Check your MTA logs to see if that's where the requests are coming from. >This is odd, in that I'm site admin and have not sent any such requests. >>From the little bit of spot checking I've done, the requests appear to >come mostly from machines in RIPE space in Europe. > >Is anyone else seeing this? What measures, if any, can a site admin take >to block bogus subscription requests? Short of disabling the -subscribe and -join addresses, you can't stop the requests, but you can use subscribe_policy to mitigate the impact. If it is spam, requests won't be confirmed. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
