On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
As the listadmin, I'd like to apologize for some recent lists mail loss.

A spammer managed to get a subscription confirmation email send to a
spamtrap address, that promptly caused the lists server to be listed on
a blacklist for 12-14 hours.

During that time, approximately 2000 list deliveries were rejected due
to the RBL. First recorded rejection was around Feb 1 00:20 UTC, last
recorded was Feb 1 13:35 UTC.

I've included full log details in a blogpost:
http://robbat2.livejournal.com/236942.html

If you know anybody that runs similar spamtraps, please ask them to
ensure list confirmation requests are NOT treated as spam.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
GnuPG FP   : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED  F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
Woah so thats why I had to move the subscribe messages to the Inbox in gmail. THey may be CONNECTED TO THAT SPAM LIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!