Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Dale writes: > D'oh. My apologies. The error was not from the trailing '$' but > from not having the quotes in place originally. All is now well > (with the above). No big deal; on the contrary, we really appreciate your report confirming that the regex works as expected for you, after

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-03 Thread Mark Dale
> And what is the error in Mailman's error log. GLOBAL_BAN_LIST = ['^[0-9a-z.]{6,}\+[0-9a-z]{4,}@gmail\.com$'] D'oh. My apologies. The error was not from the trailing '$' but from not having the quotes in place originally. All is now well (with the above). Thanks, Mark 2018/06/04 10:33:14

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 06/03/2018 05:58 PM, Mark Dale wrote: > > I can't see why either, but with the '$' left in place, the > Mailman Web UI displayed the error "Sorry, we hit a bug..." And what is the error in Mailman's error log. -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-03 Thread Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users
On 06/03/2018 04:11 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Ban list regexps are case insensitive. Thank you for the clarification Mark. The fact that the ones I saw never had periods following the plus sign. ACK -- Grant. . . . unix || die --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-03 Thread Mark Dale
> >> ^[0-9a-z.]{8,}\+[0-9a-z]{4,}@gmail\.com$ > > > > I'm getting errors with the above however it seems to do the job > > if I enclose it in quotes and remove the trailing $ - like so: > > > > GLOBAL_BAN_LIST = ['^[0-9a-z.]{6,}\+[0-9a-z]{4,}@gmail\.com'] - > What you have done is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 06/03/2018 04:28 PM, Mark Dale wrote: > >> I use this regexp in the GLOBAL_BAN_LIST >> >> ^[0-9a-z.]{8,}\+[0-9a-z]{4,}@gmail\.com$ > > I'm getting errors with the above however it seems to do the job > if I enclose it in quotes and remove the trailing $ - like so: > > GLOBAL_BAN_LIST =

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-03 Thread Mark Dale
> I use this regexp in the GLOBAL_BAN_LIST > > ^[0-9a-z.]{8,}\+[0-9a-z]{4,}@gmail\.com$ I'm getting errors with the above however it seems to do the job if I enclose it in quotes and remove the trailing $ - like so: GLOBAL_BAN_LIST = ['^[0-9a-z.]{6,}\+[0-9a-z]{4,}@gmail\.com'] Am I missing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 06/03/2018 09:53 AM, Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users wrote: > On 06/02/2018 09:29 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> I use this regexp in the GLOBAL_BAN_LIST >> >> ^[0-9a-z.]{8,}\+[0-9a-z]{4,}@gmail\.com$ > > Are you not looking for capital letters? Ban list regexps are case insensitive. > I can see

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-03 Thread Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users
On 06/02/2018 09:29 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: I use this regexp in the GLOBAL_BAN_LIST ^[0-9a-z.]{8,}\+[0-9a-z]{4,}@gmail\.com$ Are you not looking for capital letters? I can see how the period in the first class would work, but I don't see that in the second class. What am I missing? --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-02 Thread Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Sat, 2018-06-02 at 20:50 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Are they just script kiddies trying to be noticed or are they > actually trying to accomplish something. I don't think they know what potential they have, but they know there has to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-02 Thread David Andrews
At 10:29 PM 6/2/2018, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 06/02/2018 06:55 PM, David Andrews wrote: > > Does anyone have any solution for dealing with spam subscriptions from > gmail > addresses? > The requests are coming from random addresses that contain a few words, a > plus sign, then another random

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
I have a different question. For a few weeks now the Mailman 2.1 lists @python.org have seen a massive number of web subscribes from addresses @yahoo.com and @aol.com addresses. The aol.com ones seem to have abated but yahoo.com continues. They mostly have local parts that look like first and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 06/02/2018 06:55 PM, David Andrews wrote: > > Does anyone have any solution for dealing with spam subscriptions from > gmail > addresses? > The requests are coming from random addresses that contain a few words, a > plus sign, then another random string of characters. I use this regexp in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-06-02 Thread David Andrews
A couple months ago I asked a question and got a response from Mark Sapiro, see below. We are having trouble implementing anything. We are trying recaptcha, but it isn't popular with our users, thousands of whom are blind. Here is what my Linux guy asks: Does anyone have any solution for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-02-23 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 02/23/2018 07:07 AM, David Andrews wrote: > > I have just two lists that receive a bunch of spam subscribes each day > -- hundreds of them, in fact. For some reason -- which is good, they are > held, so don't go through, not quite sure why.  Two questions -- first > is there a file I can erase

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-02-23 Thread Brian Carpenter
> I have a mailman installation with over 300 lists. It is cPanel, but > I am the administrator so have access to command line etc. > > I have just two lists that receive a bunch of spam subscribes each > day -- hundreds of them, in fact. For some reason -- which is good, > they are held, so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-02-23 Thread Phil Stracchino via Mailman-Users
On 02/23/18 10:07, David Andrews wrote: > I have just two lists that receive a bunch of spam subscribes each > day -- hundreds of them, in fact. For some reason -- which is good, > they are held, so don't go through, not quite sure why. Two > questions -- first is there a file I can erase for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-02-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/23/18 10:07, David Andrews wrote: > Secondly, there is some commonality in the subscribe addresses, are > there strings I can use to discard the subscribes so I never have to see them. > > Below are examples, there is a common word, or a common word, a > period ., and another common word,

[Mailman-Users] Spam Subscriptions

2018-02-23 Thread David Andrews
I have a mailman installation with over 300 lists. It is cPanel, but I am the administrator so have access to command line etc. I have just two lists that receive a bunch of spam subscribes each day -- hundreds of them, in fact. For some reason -- which is good, they are held, so don't go