Re: Administrivia - Regarding bulk mail

[gobbles () hush com]

lol

On On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 04:49:50 -0700 John Cartwright <johnc () grok org uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> The recent deluge of spam deserves some discussion, I believe.
>
> Firstly, to clarify, this bulk mail is *not* from gobbles () hushmail com.
> The PGP signature is invalid, and the mail is spoofed. This appears 
> to 
> be an attempt to cause a DoS to the mailing list administration 
> at the
> price of safeguarding the list from this traffic.
>
> Since filtering this mail, we have been subjected to an SMTP-based 
> flood,
> with peak rates of > 200 mails/minute hitting our list. We have 
> observed 
> over 60 different source addresses in use during this time and I 
> have 
> submitted the offending IPs to the ORDB.
>
> Please be patient whilst we work to resolve this issue, and accept 
> the 
> fact that for an open list of this nature, some client-side filtering 
> is
> inevitable.
>
> Cheers
> - John
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