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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Perry E. Metzger writes:

 > 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.

Spammers are generally greedy but not bright?

BTW, to answer Rick's question, yes, I'm seeing them too, in the all-
lowercase form, on some but not all lists.  I'M not sure why they pick
the lists they do.