Bots are able to sign up for forums now, even with anti-spam protection enabled (email verification, security image verification) so i don't see why they can't do the same with mailing list style things. I know bots regularly sign up for my forum. they all seem to be russian email addresses too...
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 01/07/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Allan Odgaard</b> <<a href="mailto:throw-away-1@macromates.com">throw-away-1@macromates.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 1/7/2006, at 18:13, <<a href="mailto:glumor@faza.ru">glumor@faza.ru</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Visit [....]<br><br>That's a little odd. This user/bot had actually gone through the<br>subscription process, since only list members can post.
<br><br>I have unsubscribed it, but I sure do not hope this is the next step<br>in spamming.<br><br><br><br><br>______________________________________________________________________<br>For new threads USE THIS: <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">
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