I have seen lots of these subscribers too. After looking at this, I will kick them all.
By the way, the "It works!" message on zeusmail.org is Apache's default page for a new web server that doesn't have any content yet, so it is probably just a spam server. --Jake ________________________________ From: Axel Hecht <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, January 11, 2010 8:08:09 AM Subject: Re: [Project_owners] Mailing list subscriptions On 11.01.10 11:52, Philip Chee wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:01:27 +0100, Marco Pivetta wrote: >>> On 11.01.10 09:34, Onno Ekker wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Since yesterday I see a lot of users from @zeusmail.org subscribing to >>>> my projects mailing lists. Do other project owners also see this, or am >>>> I the only one? >>>> >>>> Does anyone know what zeusmail.org is? Their website doesn't give too >>>> much information: "It works!" is all there is. >>>> >>>> I'm a bit afraid those addresses will be used for spamming. Is it >>>> possible to moderate new e-mail addresses by default? >>>> >>>> Onno > > Not just mozdev: > > Live 555 mailing list. > http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2009-November/011475.html > > Dirvish mailing list > http://old.nabble.com/Administrivia:-zeusmail.org-td26201838.html > Quote: > "Spamsign; I moderated them. Unless I hear otherwise, I will block > that domain." > > listwork mailing list > http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/listwork/2009-November/1105-iy.html > > thanks for having kept an open eye on this. You're right, what you saw > is apparently the result of automated registrations, supposedly carried > out by spammers to be later able to send spam though these mailing list > without having their emails help for moderation. > > I have deleted 58 zeusmail.org users' subscriptions to individual > mailing lists, all of which had been subscribed two days ago. > > Running the following command on thier Mailman logs should help other > admins to determine whether they may have been hit by the same issue. > >> grep -E '^\w{3} [0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2} [0-9]{4} > \([0-9]{1,5}\) [._[:alnum:]-]+: new [a-z][a-z]+\.[a-z][a-...@[^,]+, via > web confirmation$' /var/log/mailman/subscribe > > http://mailman.ccsds.org/pipermail/moims-dai/2009-November.txt > > I've been seeing a number of subscription requests from a number > different names but all from zeusmail.org to this list and other lists. > When I request an introduction from the addresses, I don't get a reply. > Unless I hear objections, I'm just going to start rejecting any > subscription requests from zeusmail.org. > > https://lists.infrae.com/pipermail/silva-general/2009-December/001910.html > > We got subscription requests to three Silva mailing lists for three > different names from zeusmail.org. Spamsign; I moderated them. Unless > I hear otherwise, I will block that domain. > > Phil > Kicked those that I had taken for [email protected], too. Axel _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
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