[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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