Being a large listserv site, we get a lot of spoofing attempts.  This is where someone tries to subscribe to hundreds of lists.  This is almost always a denial of service attempt to flood the victims in-box.  However, some of these have been going undetected recently.

For example, last night we got over 600 attempts from [log in to unmask], but I did not get a spoof alert.  The subscription line was in error - perhaps that is the problem.  Listserv wrote an error message to the bogus address rather than detecting the spoof attempt.  Then I got the bounced error, part of which was

>To: [log in to unmask]
>
> > subscribe AMINT-L [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]
>Please supply  your name rather than  your e-mail address, as  in "SUBSCRIBE
>AMINT-L Joe H. Smith". Alternatively,  if you want to subscribe anonymously,
>send the command: "SUBSCRIBE AMINT-L Anonymous". Your subscription will then
>be hidden automatically.



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