Re: [mailop] Bots, spam-traps and signup pages

2019-05-10 Thread Tom Kulzer via mailop
On May 9, 2019, at 5:43 PM, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop mailto:mailop@mailop.org>> wrote: > > Is this deliberate enemy action or collateral damage ? > I'm finding it difficult to see why a general spam bot > would sign spam traps up to a mailing list, > so guess that I am missing something ? Va

Re: [mailop] Bots, spam-traps and signup pages

2019-05-10 Thread Norbert Bollow via mailop
On Thu, 9 May 2019 22:43:30 +0100 (BST) Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2019, Rob McEwen via mailop wrote: > > That has been happening OFTEN in recent years - and those who > > don't do COI and don't captcha-protect their forms (or some > > equivalent only-a-human-could-hav

Re: [mailop] Bots, spam-traps and signup pages

2019-05-09 Thread Jay Hennigan via mailop
On 5/9/19 2:43 PM, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote: Is this deliberate enemy action or collateral damage ? I'm finding it difficult to see why a general spam bot would sign spam traps up to a mailing list, so guess that I am missing something ? Some of it may be in response to the growing

Re: [mailop] Bots, spam-traps and signup pages

2019-05-09 Thread Michael Wise via mailop
2019 4:29 PM To: Andrew C Aitchison ; mailop Subject: Re: [mailop] Bots, spam-traps and signup pages On 5/9/2019 5:43 PM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2019, Rob McEwen via mailop wrote: >> The documents that Paul referenced in his last message - probably >> ment

Re: [mailop] Bots, spam-traps and signup pages

2019-05-09 Thread Rob McEwen via mailop
On 5/9/2019 5:43 PM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Thu, 9 May 2019, Rob McEwen via mailop wrote: The documents that Paul referenced in his last message - probably mentioned this somewhere - but I'll add that (in addition to the link above and doing confirmed-opt-in "COI") you should strongly enc

[mailop] Bots, spam-traps and signup pages

2019-05-09 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
On Thu, 9 May 2019, Rob McEwen via mailop wrote: The documents that Paul referenced in his last message - probably mentioned this somewhere - but I'll add that (in addition to the link above and doing confirmed-opt-in "COI") you should strongly encourage your customers to captcha-protect thei