[Mailman-Users] [Suspected Spam]Re: Brute force attacks on mailman web ui

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 21 Apr 2018 12:14:26 -0500 Dmitri Maziuk <dmaziuk at bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote:

> 
> On 4/21/2018 11:51 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> > I also wonder what Chinese
> > immigration authorities would think of a fwknop app on an iPhone....
> 
> They'll send your users to a re-education camp where they can learn 
> about possession of restricted/illegal tech. Where they will also not 
> have access to e-mail and won't be able to participate in your list.
> 
> You can skip the middle part and just not let them subscribe to begin with.
> 
> (FWIW I've recently firewalled off a bunch of Baidu IPs because their 
> crawler was ignoring robots.txt and hitting CGI scripts that require a 
> small-ish amount of processing... never attribute to malice that which 
> can be adequately explained by stupidity.)

And *I* have a fail2ban rule just for BingBot.  M$'s coders are somewhat 
clueless.

> 
> Dima
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