[Noisebridge-discuss] possible spambots on NB mailing lists

Rachel McConnell rachel at xtreme.com
Tue Oct 19 21:40:17 UTC 2010


Yes, delete those subscribers and ban zeusmail.  If they're real people,
it's easy enough to resubscribe using a different address, which is
trivial to obtain.

Rachel

Andy Isaacson wrote:
> While reviewing our mailing list server, I noticed that we have several
> addresses @zeusmail.org subscribed -- one each to many of our lists,
> including board at lists and noisebridge-discuss at lists .  The addresses are
> <random firstname>.<random lastname>@ .
> 
> Discussion on the internets indicates that zeusmail.org is probably some
> kind of spam harvesting setup.
> 
> Nobody from zeusmail has ever offered any defense, AFAIK.
> 
> Should I delete the subscribers and ban zeusmail.org from
> lists.noisebridge.net ?  Anybody know more of the backstory here?
> 
> For the record, here are subscriber counts for our top 10 lists:
> 
>   790   Noisebridge-announce
>   560   Noisebridge-discuss
>   105   Cyborg
>    99   Noisebridge-jobs
>    89   Space
>    78   EEG
>    76   ml
>    74   Noisedroid
>    67   Build
>    50   Security
> 
> there are 34 lists in all hosted on lists.noisebridge.net.
> 
> We have subscribers on 458 different domains; the top few domains, by
> number of distinct addresses subscribed to any NB list, are:
> 
>     687 gmail.com
>      73 yahoo.com
>      26 zeusmail.org
>      21 hotmail.com
>      13 ethereal.net
>       8 googlemail.com
>       6 me.com
>       5 mit.edu
> 
> -andy
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