[Mailman-Users] Targeted attack against german universities using mailman

[Bryan Blackwell]

On May 9, 2017, at 8:17 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de> wrote:
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> The bigger issue is that clearly the admin addresses of all lists were scraped from the public listinfo pages. This means that the same thing could happen again anytime. :-(

Some years ago I ran into this problem, we turned off all the "Advertise this list" options and instead refer to them from other general info pages for the group.  That cut down the spam to the lists, admins, and -owners addresses considerably.

--Bryan

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