On 7/16/2011 2:20 PM, David Andrews wrote: > > Has anyone seen anything like this and what does it mean. I run a > server with about 150 public mailman lists on it, and just got about 300 > new subscriptions to various public lists, from the same domain at the > same time. It is "apot.com" and the form is firstname dot lastname at > apot.com and the first and last names are all different but believable. > Is this like the zeusmail.com subscriptions a while back, I got a bunch, > but never knew what they were about.
It's answerpot <http://answerpot.com/> archiving your lists. In my case, they sent an email to the owner of one list about a week before with links to opt-in immediately or opt-out with the no response default being opt-in after a week with no response. I didn't respond, set the list's subscribe police to approve and waited. The interesting thing is I have a few advertised lists, some active, and the only one they targeted was effectively dormant. All the lists have private archives. I eventually got a couple of subscription requests from addresses similar to what you describe at apotmail.com. I discarded the requests and added ^.*[@.]apotmail\.com$ to the ban list of all my lists. Perhaps I'll change that to ^.*[@.]apot(mail)?\.com$ based on what you saw. Interestingly, the names answerpot.com, apotmail.com and mail.apotmail.com all map to the same IP while apot.com maps to a different IP which is apparently a reseller - "The domain apot.com is for sale. To purchase, call BuyDomains.com". -- 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 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
