zeusmail.org and answerpot.com linked
An FYI for anyone interested ...
Yesterday I was notified of a site, http://answerpot.com, that was archiving two of our lists (without permission, which we require for republication).
I couldn't find anything fishy in the logs, so I turned on personalization. But the site was stripping out email addresses from the message bodies (including those I was inserting into the footers). So I ended up putting user_optionsurl in the footers, waited for someone to post, then checked the answerpot.com site for the message and finally identified the culprit.
It turned out to be a zeusmail.org address. That domain was discussed here a few months ago after some people noticed a large number of subscriptions/attempts from there. I've unsubscribed everything from that domain and added it to the banned list. I haven't heard of any legitimate subscribers from that domain -- yet -- so I'm hoping that will take care of the problem.
They had actually subscribed late last year, but apparently started archiving only in April.
rac
Thanks for the heads up. For everyone else:
Found 2 emails on our list Alberta.Riza@zeusmail.org Delpha.Langenegger@zeusmail.org
additionally I added ^@zeusmail.org to our banned list.
-Bob
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Russell Clemings <rclemings@gmail.com> wrote:
An FYI for anyone interested ...
Yesterday I was notified of a site, http://answerpot.com, that was archiving two of our lists (without permission, which we require for republication).
I couldn't find anything fishy in the logs, so I turned on personalization. But the site was stripping out email addresses from the message bodies (including those I was inserting into the footers). So I ended up putting user_optionsurl in the footers, waited for someone to post, then checked the answerpot.com site for the message and finally identified the culprit.
It turned out to be a zeusmail.org address. That domain was discussed here a few months ago after some people noticed a large number of subscriptions/attempts from there. I've unsubscribed everything from that domain and added it to the banned list. I haven't heard of any legitimate subscribers from that domain -- yet -- so I'm hoping that will take care of the problem.
They had actually subscribed late last year, but apparently started archiving only in April.
rac
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