[Mailman-Developers] Mass subscriptions as a DoS attack

2020-11-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Alessandro Vesely writes: > Trolls can wreak havoc by subscribing to one or more high volume > mailing lists on behalf of a target one. > > Are there mechanisms to prevent that? Don't antagonize trolls. :-/ The subscription to the high-volume list itself can't be prevented by the victim lis

[Mailman-Developers] Mass subscriptions as a DoS attack

2020-11-27 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Trolls can wreak havoc by subscribing to one or more high volume mailing lists on behalf of a target one. For example, someone could subscribe this list to the Linux kernel mailing list. Everybody would see the confirmation message, but by the time someone realizes the need to unsubscribe, the