[Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions
Ralf Hildebrandt
Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Sun Jul 17 19:38:01 CEST 2011
* Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>:
> It's answerpot <http://answerpot.com/> archiving your lists.
Aha.
> In my case, they sent an email to the owner of one list about a week
> before with links to opt-in immediately or opt-out with the no response
> default being opt-in after a week with no response. I didn't respond,
> set the list's subscribe police to approve and waited.
>
> The interesting thing is I have a few advertised lists, some active, and
> the only one they targeted was effectively dormant. All the lists have
> private archives.
>
> I eventually got a couple of subscription requests from addresses
> similar to what you describe at apotmail.com. I discarded the requests
> and added
>
> ^.*[@.]apotmail\.com$
>
> to the ban list of all my lists. Perhaps I'll change that to
>
> ^.*[@.]apot(mail)?\.com$
>
> based on what you saw.
Would be cool if you could do that on mail.python.org as well!
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Ralf Hildebrandt
Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Campus Benjamin Franklin
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