Re: [Mailman-Users] Distributed mass subscribe attack?

2017-08-19 Thread Richard Shetron
On 8/18/2017 1:52 PM, Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users wrote: On 08/18/2017 11:07 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: I second this.  It is a legitimate part of compliant email addresses, no matter how many web stores seem to believe otherwise (or are merely unaware of it). I third this. I love

Re: [Mailman-Users] Users being unsubscribed without requesting it.

2017-08-19 Thread Steve Wehr
That's the best theory I have heard so far to explain the facts. The user's in question, who are being unsubscribed without asking to be, are people who like the mailing lists they are on, and would not be flagging emails from the list as spam. Now their ISP might, but they wouldn't. The list

[Mailman-Users] Users being unsubscribed without requesting it.

2017-08-19 Thread Steve Wehr
I host about a hundred lists and from time to time the list owners keep telling me that users are being unsubscribed from the list without asking to be. Now I assume these users are just being removed for bouncing, but when I check the mailman log files in /var/log/mailman I see this:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Users being unsubscribed without requesting it.

2017-08-19 Thread Andy Cravens
On Aug 19, 2017, at 8:27 AM, Steve Wehr wrote: subscribe:Aug 18 00:41:10 2017 (22583) saintsofswing: deleted dorrainescofi...@gmail.com; via the member options page Steve, if this was done via the web interface the first thing I would do is get the date/timestamp for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Users being unsubscribed without requesting it.

2017-08-19 Thread Keith Seyffarth
"Steve Wehr" writes: > The problem is that when contacted, these users swear they DID NOT > unsubscribe themselves. So how can they be getting unsubscribed (with > messages in the logs like the one above) but they are not going to the > member options page and