It comes with the territory of being a list admin IMO. On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > For whatever reason, we're seeing a fair number of complaints that > people are being spammed by subscription requests. It looks like there's > some sort of script hitting a number of mailman installations and > sending subscribe requests for a variety of email addresses. > > I have no idea what this accomplishes for the person(s) behind the > bot(s) but it's annoying people and AFAIK we don't have a good way of > blocking it. > > We could cut this off at the pass by turning off the ability to > subscribe, but that means we'd have to process subscription requests > manually and some folks might not subscribe if they have to jump through > additional hoops. But I don't think the subscription rate is > particularly high for this list - so that may be a minor issue. > > Thoughts? I hate to make things more complicated, but I also would like > our list software not be abused. > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier | Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst > jzb@xxxxxxxxxx | http://community.redhat.com/ > Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/ > > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List info or to change your subscription: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
