Re: [Mailman-Users] I did not submit a request to unsubscribe from mailman-users

2012-10-30 Thread Kalbfleisch, Gary
mailman-users * Kalbfleisch, Gary : > I received three unsubscribe confirmations over night. I did not > initiate these. The source IP's resolve to India and Sri Lanka. Is it > just me or is this happening to other subscribers? Not to me, but we're also seeing subscription r

[Mailman-Users] I did not submit a request to unsubscribe from mailman-users

2012-10-30 Thread Kalbfleisch, Gary
I received three unsubscribe confirmations over night. I did not initiate these. The source IP's resolve to India and Sri Lanka. Is it just me or is this happening to other subscribers? -- Gary Kalbfleisch -- Director of Technology Support Services -- Shoreline Community College -- (206) 546

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-29 Thread Kalbfleisch, Gary
t; wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 21:04 +, Kalbfleisch, Gary wrote: >> I like to stick with packages when possible because it makes >> maintenance much easier. > > As do I. There are times, however, when mission-critical packages in a > distribution are outdated, or abs

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-29 Thread Kalbfleisch, Gary
ject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List > Owners With Subscription Requests > > On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 23:53 +, Kalbfleisch, Gary wrote: > > I am running 2.1.9 because that is the latest version available from > > Redhat as a package. > > I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Too many recipients

2012-10-23 Thread Kalbfleisch, Gary
Am I understanding correctly that the list itself is a member of the list? Sounds like an email loop to me. What are you trying to do? -- Gary Kalbfleisch -- Director of Technology Support Services -- Shoreline Community College -- (206) 546-5813 -- (206) 546-6943 Fax > -Origi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-23 Thread Kalbfleisch, Gary
Note that for the majority of what I have seen in this attack it is the return email messages that the exploiters desire. I have seen some subscriptions actually get through but I have not seen them exploited in any way other than to add to the flood of emails to the subscriber. I have seen

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-22 Thread Kalbfleisch, Gary
I personally don't care for CAPTCHA but it exists for a reason. If anyone can suggest a better solution I would love to here it. Right now Mailman is being exploited to email bomb individuals and DOS email systems. This cannot continue. Gary Kalbfleisch Sent from my iPod On Oct 22, 2012,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-22 Thread Kalbfleisch, Gary
Hi Stephen, Thank you for your reply. My responses are below > -Original Message- > From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:step...@xemacs.org] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 9:20 PM > To: Kalbfleisch, Gary > Cc: mailman-users@python.org > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Auto

[Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-19 Thread Kalbfleisch, Gary
For the past couple days my Mailman server has been hammered with automated subscription requests. I've always seen a few here and there but nothing like this. Thousands of them, exploiting the web interface and replying to confirmation email messages. Many of our lists were open subscriptio