[Mailman-Users] Bogus/forged subscription attempts: request for comments and possibly data

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:01:19 -0700 Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
wrote:
> They are spammers attempting to subscribe to your list(s) via POSTs
> to the web subscribe CGI. Presumably if they successfully
> subscribe, they will then spam the list.

BTW, I don't quite understand this. Why would splatting random
addresses at you help them? Why not just pick real addresses they
control? Successfully subscribing is easy, and generating seemingly
random addresses won't get them subscribed since the addresses will
never get a confirmation round trip.

Perry
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