[Box-Admins] [Board] FYI - unusual unsubscribe activity from vm-dev

[Levente Uzonyi]

Hi Dave,

On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, David T. Lewis wrote:

> Nothing this for information in case there may be a problem.
>
> Today I received 18 unsubscribe notifications from vm-dev with the
> following time stamps in my inbox:
>
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:42:54 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:34:44 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:35:30 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:36:51 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:43:57 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:46:06 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:47:40 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:41:19 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:41:50 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:40:11 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:31:55 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:48:30 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:48:57 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:49:25 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:49:56 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:50:20 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:51:23 +0000
> 	Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:07:09 +0000
>
> This would have to have come from an automated process, so I am
> mentioning it here in case it might be some new bot attack that
> I have not seen before.

That was me. I removed addresses which do not exist anymore according to 
their mail servers to minimize bounces.
I didn't expect you to get notifications as I supressed them to avoid 
generating more bounced emails.


Levente

>
> I occasionally do see new subscriptions that presumably come from
> unfriendly activity, for example a recent subscription to vm-dev
> was from americafirst at myloaninsurance.com. I set that one to
> moderated and nomail, and have not seen any further activity from
> it. But it's pretty clear that the attack bots know how to subscribe
> to mailing lists these days, and I don't know what else they might
> be up to.
>
> FYI,
> Dave
>
>