Hi Mark,
Thank you for your information. I’ve been using Mailman since 2000. I also contributed to Portuguese translation some years ago. Great software. I have about 500 mailing lists, and have done some integration with Mhonarch. > > This is the real Pending database. It's size is way too big. It contains > the tokens for things like Subscruptions, Unsubscriptions, Held > messages, etc waiting some kind of confirmation. Requests older than > PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE (default 3 days) are expunged so it's hard to > imagine why it is that big. I guess that’s caused by spam. Looked at my httpd logs and I’ve found a site ( http://www.skyju.cc/mailhzj.html <http://www.skyju.cc/mailhzj.html>) that is a spam bomber and it sends subscription requests to 500 mailman lists spreaded all over the world. Just look at the page source of http://www.skyju.cc/mailhzj.html <http://www.skyju.cc/mailhzj.html>. One of my mailing lists is listed there. There’s the code of that page that sends a subscription request to one of my mailing lists :document.write(“<iframe frameborder=‘0’ src=‘http://ml.ci.uc.pt/mailman/subscribe/archport?email="+spam_id+"&fullname=&pw=123456789&pw-conf=123456789&language=en&digest=0&email-button=Subscribe' width='0' height='0'></iframe>"); I am going to put some apache rewrite rules to prevent this, but I don’t know if this is the best way to prevent that kind of spam. Please let me know if you have a better way to deal with this spam. Thanks again, João Maria Montezuma Carvalho de Sá Marta Especialista de Informática Universidade de Coimbra · Administração SGSIIC – Gestão de Sistemas e Infraestruturas de Informação e Comunicação Divisão de Sistemas de Informação Rua Arco da Traição · 3003-056 · Coimbra · Portugal Tel. | Phone: +351 239 242 885 E-mail joao.sa.ma...@uc.pt www.uc.pt/administracao <http://www.uc.pt/administracao> Este email pretende ser amigo do ambiente. Pondere antes de o imprimir! A Universidade de Coimbra dá preferência a produtos e serviços com menor impacto ambiental. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://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: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
