[mailop] More issues with cableone.net today (repeat of March 16 and May 12)

2016-05-29 Thread frnkblk
Sounds like Synacor (who hosts cableone.net) has had issues again. From our email server logs: Open (64.8.70.47) Error 0sec (421 4.3.4 allocated resources exceeded) Open (64.8.70.47) Error 4sec (399 TCP Read failed (Connection reset by peer after 4 seconds) 4 sec) First log entry

Re: [mailop] signup form abuse

2016-05-29 Thread Dave Warren
On 2016-05-29 12:29, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:07:44AM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote: >CAPTCHA could potentially fix it, but that is sure to raise >objections as being too inconvenient for list operators playing the >numbers game. Captchas are also not a valid anti-abuse

Re: [mailop] signup form abuse

2016-05-29 Thread Shaun
On Fri, 27 May 2016 11:07:44 -0700 Jay Hennigan wrote: > HTML "Click-to-confirm" has been shown in the recent discussion to be > subject to false positives by email scanning software that follows links. I feel like this is the result of poor implementation on the part

Re: [mailop] signup form abuse

2016-05-29 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 5/29/16 11:29 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:07:44AM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote: CAPTCHA could potentially fix it, but that is sure to raise objections as being too inconvenient for list operators playing the numbers game. Captchas are also not a valid anti-abuse

Re: [mailop] signup form abuse

2016-05-29 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:07:44AM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote: > CAPTCHA could potentially fix it, but that is sure to raise > objections as being too inconvenient for list operators playing the > numbers game. Captchas are also not a valid anti-abuse mechanism: they have been quite thoroughly