[Imc-india] Fwd: Re: [IMC-Seattle] Spam attacks are to large to ignore now

[Sivaraman Balachandran]

FYI - spam issue in seattle


--- Sheri Herndon <sheri@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> To: "Joseph" <relayer@speakeasy.org>,
> 	"List Seattle" <imc-seattle@lists.indymedia.org>,
> 	Seattle-Editorial
> <seattle-editorial@lists.indymedia.org>
> From: Sheri Herndon <sheri@speakeasy.org>
> Subject: Re: [IMC-Seattle] Spam attacks are to large
> to ignore now
> CC: <listwork@lists.indymedia.org>, matze
> <matze@indymedia.org>
> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:44:40 -0800
> 
> hi joseph, jeremy and everyone,
> 
> i've just recently emailed imc-tech and listwork
> about this problem 
> and i was told that there is an irc meeting tomorrow
> that will be 
> focussed on this issue.  they are acutely aware of
> the problem and 
> are working toward short and long term solutions. 
> part of the 
> problem is our mail server, sarai, is undergoing
> some major changes 
> back in philly and they will need to figure out the
> next steps in 
> terms of installing spamassassin that is stable.
> 
> from matze on imc-tech in response to my plea for
> spam control:
> 
> hi sheri,
> 
> there is a meeting scheduled for tomorrow, Sun Mar
> 30 22:00:00 UTC
> 2003, to address the spam issue and general problems
> with the
> list-server. unfortunatly we can't offer a short
> time solution, the
> list-server is to unstable. when plugging-in
> spamassassin some hours
> later the server goes down. philly ppl have to go to
> the datacenter,
> which is out of town to reboot the beast, and we
> can't expect them to
> do that daily. tech ppl are aware that the current
> situation is
> unsustainable, and we're trying to change that asap.
> 
> so as you can see, it is being worked on and
> everyone knows it is a 
> huge problem.  it's out of control.  but our techies
> are doing their 
> best.  if anyone has any magic they would like to
> share, that would 
> be awesome i'm sure!!
> 
> if an update could be sent to imc-tech that would be
> great.  i can 
> forward it to my local lists and to other lists
> where people are 
> frustrated.  thanks techies for all your work!!!!!!
> 
> peace,
> sheri
> 
> 
> At 12:26 PM -0800 3/29/03, Joseph wrote:
> >Members, friends:
> >Spam attacks on our e-mail lists are growing. I got
> 85 in the last day or
> >so, and am asking those who are in a position to
> help to do so. One IMC list
> >I admin, which is mostly defunct (It gets about 1
> or 2 legitimate posts a
> >month) received 3 bad posts this morning. More than
> one person is leaving
> >one or more of our lists today, and that's the time
> to aggressively to work
> >the problem-when it hurts people.
> >Joseph
> >
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> You never change things by fighting the existing
> reality. 
> To change something, build a NEW model that makes
> the existing model obsolete.
> 
> Buckminster Fuller
> 
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