* frm russell@private "09/23/03 14:50:39 +1000" | sed '1,$s/^/* /' * * On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:50, Crispin Cowan wrote: *> And at the present time, it would also be infeasible to close the list. *> The net is under heavy bombardment by the Swen virus, so the mailman *> interface is choked with bogus posts. If it were closed, the risk of a *> moderator mistakenly rejecting a legitimate post would be very high. * * Mail sometimes gets lost, it's something we have to deal with. Not that it should affect the decision, but the list appeared to have been "blacklisted" for a week by our corporate spam filters (apparantly due to propagating viruses), I missed any messages between the 6-16 September (I only notced after an unsubscribe message from mailman). If the list becomes overloaded with SPAM/virii, then other corporate entities may start to block it. And no, I don't have any good suggestions, the problem is industry wide.... richard. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Offer Technical Lead, Linux System Software, SGI "Specialization is for insects" _______________________________________________________________________
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