On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 12:08 PM KuboF Hromoslav <kubof.hromos...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On the lists "wikimedia-sk" and "wikimedia-sk-oznamy", where I am admin,
> we have received suspicious mass subscriptions (several tens in several
> hours). They came from nowhere, all with @aol.com address (very unusual
> for our target group) and all declared only first name. Most certainly some
> bot.
>
> Provisionally I have set them all for moderation. Eventually I could block
> subscriptions from @aol.com addresses (no too big deal, because hardly
> someone real in our audience is using them) but I prefer systemic solutions
> and not to cure symptoms. And possibly someone else here is running into
> the same problem.
>

Yeah, I saw (and did) the same for multimedia-l. Unfortunately there is no
sender filter for members. I think setting "From: .*@aol\.com" in the spam
filters would have the same result though and that one does affect members.
Maybe there is a way to do that globally instead of one-by-one for every
mailing list?
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