<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 March 2015 at 08:42, Joe Brockmeier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jzb@redhat.com" target="_blank">jzb@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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For whatever reason, we're seeing a fair number of complaints that<br>
people are being spammed by subscription requests. It looks like there's<br>
some sort of script hitting a number of mailman installations and<br>
sending subscribe requests for a variety of email addresses.<br>
<br>
I have no idea what this accomplishes for the person(s) behind the<br>
bot(s) but it's annoying people and AFAIK we don't have a good way of<br>
blocking it.<br>
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We could cut this off at the pass by turning off the ability to<br>
subscribe, but that means we'd have to process subscription requests<br>
manually and some folks might not subscribe if they have to jump through<br>
additional hoops. But I don't think the subscription rate is<br>
particularly high for this list - so that may be a minor issue.<br>
<br>
Thoughts? I hate to make things more complicated, but I also would like<br>
our list software not be abused.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So it looks like someone has decided to use a botnet to subscribe 4000+ addresses to marketing over and over again. The ips are all over the world so it is not going to be easy to block so I am guessing it will be best to turn off subscribe until we can find a better solution. This might be multiple ones as someone seems to be doing every person in @<a href="http://qq.com">qq.com</a> and another set is doing other email sites. </div><div> </div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Stephen J Smoogen.<br><br></div></div>
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