Opened 13 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#741 closed task (fixed)

Better prevent from possible spam attack

Reported by: neteler Owned by: sac@…
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: SysAdmin Keywords: mailman, spam
Cc:

Description

Hi SAC,

since I monitor all subscriptions to the GRASS mailing lists, I noticed bulk subscriptions to various of our lists at the same time, all from the same domain with likely random user names.

Looking on the list server, this currently accumulates to:

find_member apotmail.com  | grep found | wc -l
259

Apparently we are not alone: http://www.mentby.com/Group/svlug/probablehaus-domain-apotmailcom.html

I would suggest to bulk-unsubscribe them as mailman admin and block that domain to avoid a mess in the future in many OSGeo lists.

Markus

Change History (4)

comment:1 by neteler, 13 years ago

I have solved it for the GRASS lists.

comment:2 by strk, 8 years ago

Still 128 members in 66 mailing lists. Should we assume they are still spammers ?

Last edited 8 years ago by strk (previous) (diff)

comment:3 by strk, 8 years ago

For the record, at the time of writing LDAP has no entry of users with @aptomail.com mail address

comment:4 by neteler, 7 years ago

Keywords: spam added
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Closing since it seems to be somehow solved.

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