I think that script is hanging on long enough to harvest address's. I got an email this evening addressed to a non-existant user advertising, of all things, linux help. May or may not be related, but if anyone else got the same email we'll know for sure. Bob On 22 May 2001, at 23:06, Bob Tanner wrote: > Whomever talked about a script signing up and signing off the list to > spam, your where right. > > The confirm with approval caught the spambot in action. > > And our friends(?) over at hotmail are where the spam source comes > from. > > So, I am going to temp block all posting from hotmail.com to the list. > > I have contacted the abuse people at hotmail and got their nice form > letter back (I hate these). > > So here it is in all caps. > > YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO POST TO THIS LIST IF YOU ARE USING HOTMAIL!! > > I'll leave the ban up until June 1st. > > -- > Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 > Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list