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#mastoadmin question - the "e-mail blacklist" option, anyone know offhand if that will accept wildcard domains - say, *.pw or *.ru by any chance?
@djsundog I'd like to say yes but havent tried
getting these spambots too?
@wxcafe yeah, up to 20 new spambots over on linernotes over the last 12 hours or so, coming from open proxies and using generated usernames and spammy-looking email addresses
@djsundog @wxcafe all the spam signups on my instance originated from a bunch of related Russian ISPs, try blocking these ranges: https://gist.github.com/patf/1ae99fdd15718483fc15b1e8c8f25fe2
Seems to have done the trick for me, no new signups in the last ~2 hours and plenty of blocked requests in my logs
@pfigel @wxcafe thanks for that - just added your list to my iptables rules, so we'll see if I can take a break from disabling accounts for a few hours ;) thanks again!