[Foundation-l] Apotmail spambots on mailing lists

Asaf Bartov abartov at wikimedia.org
Mon Jul 18 23:24:13 UTC 2011


[this is to those of you who run mailing lists]

You may have noticed a deluge of mailing list subscriptions from
sensible.names at apotmail.com -- these are definitely not real people; in all
likelihood, the operator's goal is e-mail address harvesting, or worse.
 Perhaps it would save some of you time to be aware of this and reject these
subscribers (on our subscription-by-approval lists, that is) point blank.

Cheers,

   Asaf
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    Asaf Bartov
    Wikimedia Foundation


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