[Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

[David Andrews]

At 02:09 PM 7/17/2011, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>Mark Sapiro wrote:
> >
> >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.
>
>
>When I wrote the amove, I hadn't seen my mmdsr report from yesterday.
>Yesterday (actually, today, July 17, 04:44 -0000) I had 6 banned
>subscription requests (2 each on 3 lists) from First.last at apotmail.com
>addresses. This time, there was no advance email. Their getting bolder
>and even less scrupulous.


So, at the risk of seeming stupid, what is it that they are trying to 
do, or doing.  Are they collecting addresses for spam, or what?  If I 
don't ask, I won't learn.

Dave



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