If you (Mailman site operators) have a spare moment, please try running this:
------------cut here-------------- #!/bin/sh cd /var/local/mailman/logs egrep "pending [a-z]+ <[a-z]+@[a-z]+\.com>" subscribe \ | egrep -v "@gmail.com" \ | egrep -v "@hotmail.com" \ | egrep -v "@msn.com" \ | egrep -v "@aol.com" \ | egrep -v "@yahoo.com" \ | sed -e "s/(.*pending//" ------------cut here-------------- This is a first-cut, mildly sloppy script that will try to match some patterns of interest that I've noticed in my "subscribe" log and that might be in yours. The egrep clauses are in there to throw away data not of interest; the sed snips off the mailing list name and some other irrelevancies. Here is what the last 10 lines of its output look like on my system: Jun 06 00:14:32 2014 ehkfioxlkrr <yuj...@zwdxgc.com> 62.210.226.131 Jun 06 13:23:16 2014 norchmecn <sty...@zdddmk.com> 86.51.26.20 Jun 07 02:06:20 2014 eljult <qbp...@wabtdh.com> 86.51.26.11 Jun 07 13:21:20 2014 dvlevbpj <drk...@nlcvek.com> 210.14.138.102 Jun 07 15:41:10 2014 sdbdelkv <mtp...@ghazhc.com> 86.51.26.18 Jun 07 16:17:10 2014 yqrebrgipo <ubn...@cgtnki.com> 86.51.26.20 Jun 08 06:37:12 2014 cihjwn <sou...@bprryw.com> 202.143.148.58 Jun 08 06:55:47 2014 ehxvwgrboo <iou...@mnaisa.com> 86.51.26.21 Jun 08 23:47:58 2014 qqpluym <jpb...@qkvfdi.com> 190.14.219.166 Jun 09 16:44:15 2014 mloepuj <fig...@jjxlcu.com> 172.245.142.194 This is forged gibberish, of course. The user real name is always a lowercase alpha string. The email address is also, both LHS and RHS, and the TLD is always .com. (Hence the regexp in the first egrep.) I'm curious. First, is anybody else seeing these? Second, does anyone have a theory as to their purpose? And third, is there any value in combining data to see if patterns emerge? (I have some privacy concerns about that last one, since real email addresses might leak through, so I suspect if we decided to do that, it would be best to remove everything but the timestamp and IP address. I doubt the gibberish has any real explanatory value anyway.) ---rsk ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org