That may or may not be a good metric, since if I just signed up for a legit 
mailing-list, I may be anxiously awaiting the confirmation mail, or if I'm a 
robot, I might be backlogged a few tens of seconds.

So the Venn Diagram circles just might overlap more than you would wish.

Aloha,
Michael.
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-----Original Message-----
From: mailop [mailto:mailop-boun...@mailop.org] On Behalf Of Jay Hennigan
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 4:03 PM
To: mailop@mailop.org
Subject: Re: [mailop] signup form abuse

On 5/25/16 8:36 AM, Vick Khera wrote:

> I did a spot check of a recent attack. The email address was 
> jabradb...@kanawhascales.com <mailto:jabradb...@kanawhascales.com>
> and it got signed up to 12 lists during May 17 and 18. Amazingly, 
> whoever is on the other end of that address clicked to confirm every 
> one of those confirmation messages. All confirmation clicks appear to 
> come from a netblock owned by Barracuda Networks... Hmm...

Maybe Barracuda spam filtering is doing something like opening remote content 
to inspect it before forwarding it to the inbox.

What was the latency between when the confirmations were sent and when they 
were "clicked"?

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