[Seattle-editorial] Re: [IMC-Seattle] Spam attacks are to large to ignore now

[Sheri Herndon]

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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