[Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions
Mark Sapiro
mark at msapiro.net
Sun Jul 17 19:35:57 CEST 2011
On 7/16/2011 2:20 PM, David Andrews wrote:
>
> Has anyone seen anything like this and what does it mean. I run a
> server with about 150 public mailman lists on it, and just got about 300
> new subscriptions to various public lists, from the same domain at the
> same time. It is "apot.com" and the form is firstname dot lastname at
> apot.com and the first and last names are all different but believable.
> Is this like the zeusmail.com subscriptions a while back, I got a bunch,
> but never knew what they were about.
It's answerpot <http://answerpot.com/> archiving your lists.
In my case, they sent an email to the owner of one list about a week
before with links to opt-in immediately or opt-out with the no response
default being opt-in after a week with no response. I didn't respond,
set the list's subscribe police to approve and waited.
The interesting thing is I have a few advertised lists, some active, and
the only one they targeted was effectively dormant. All the lists have
private archives.
I eventually got a couple of subscription requests from addresses
similar to what you describe at apotmail.com. I discarded the requests
and added
^.*[@.]apotmail\.com$
to the ban list of all my lists. Perhaps I'll change that to
^.*[@.]apot(mail)?\.com$
based on what you saw. Interestingly, the names answerpot.com,
apotmail.com and mail.apotmail.com all map to the same IP while apot.com
maps to a different IP which is apparently a reseller - "The domain
apot.com is for sale. To purchase, call BuyDomains.com".
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