Gary, et al:
The Mailman lists at Oregon State University have been receiving excessive
request for subscriptions since mid-October as well. Our list administrators
were suspicious because often the names on the requests did not match the email
addresses. Also, many lists that had been
Petersen, Kirsten J - NET wrote:
Today I realized that all of the lists involved in this attack have their
subscribe_policy set to just require approval rather confirm or confirm
and approve. So I think the theory that spammers were just trying to get on
the lists to harvest member addresses
