[PLUG] False mailing list sign-ups

[Paul Munday]

On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 00:31 -0700, Brian Martin wrote:

> My question is --- what's the point?  Why is a bot interested in signing 
> bad addresses (or any addresses, for that matter) up for a mailing 
> list.  I certainly haven't hired anyone to promote the site.  Can anyone 
> enlighten me as to the motivation behind this?
> 
I've seen  what looked like attempts to use poorly code/configured
mailing forms as a kind of spam redirector,  though I'm not sure that
would be the case here unless they are also hoping for a poorly
configured  newsletter mailing list that anyone can post too.

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