[Twisted-Python] upcoming changes to twistedmatrix.com mail infrastructure

[anatoly techtonik]

I prefer web-based access more than a list, so a thing like
http://try.discourse.org/ is more appropriate for me in terms
of usability.  Especially those shiny "with" login buttons.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 16, 2016, at 11:52 AM, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>
> Over the last few months, twistedmatrix.com's mailman installation has been
> used increasingly frequently to execute denial-of-service attacks against
> people's mailboxes.  This is accomplished by sending huge numbers of
> subscription requests to our website, which in turn sends huge numbers of
> confirmation emails to their inbox.  Based on some information that some
> targeted users have sent me, I now believe that this is to cause those
> users' mail quotas to be exceeded so that password reset or login
> notification emails won't reach them.
>
>
> I've taken the first few steps to migrating us over to Mailgun, but just as
> a minor status update: web-based subscription is now disabled.  If any
> generous souls would like to help out and update whatever wiki pages link to
> the mailman listinfo pages to say 'please send subscription requests to
> twisted-python-owner@ or twisted-web-owner@ instead' that would be great
> :-).  Those email addresses (and hopefully all the others, too) will keep
> working post-migration.
>
> -glyph
>
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anatoly t.