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

[Peter Shute]

Who said spamming has to be logical? I once read that spammers often use outdated, stolen, spamming software that spams in ways that were obsolete years ago.

Peter Shute

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mailman-Users 
> [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+pshute=nuw.org.au at python.org] 
> On Behalf Of Perry E. Metzger
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2014 11:49 AM
> To: Mark Sapiro
> Cc: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Bogus/forged subscription 
> attempts: request for comments and possibly data
> 
> 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
> -- 
> Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com
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