Re: What a bad day...
George (symbiotc(AT)erols.com)
Wed, 05 Mar 1997 15:34:25 -0500
David C. Jones wrote:
>
> James Lubin wrote:
> >
> > I first checked my mail at 12:45 PST and had 420 messages. I normally get
> > 70-80 messages a day. After seeing the messages, I logged on to eskimo to
> > remove Rod's address from the subscribers list. I _thought_ that worked but
> > 90 mins later was still downloading my mail (it kept timing out on me) so
> > couldn't be sure. For some reason the bounced messages were still being
> > sent to the list! I went back and read some of the messages and found the
> > messages were from 3 different addresses. After adding all 3 address to the
> > reject file they appear to have stopped.
> >
> > Hopfully nothing like this will happen again. If you ever need to
> > unsubscribe from the list, send a message to "tmic-list-request(AT)eskimo.com"
> > with the subject "unsubscribe" (no quotes). The list program on eskimo is
> > smartlist so listserv or listproc commands don't work.
> >
> > ----
> > Jim Lubin jlubin(AT)eskimo.com
> > Bothell, WA, USA <http://www.eskimo.com/~jlubin>
> > disAbility Resources: <http://www.eskimo.com/~jlubin/disabled>
> Jim that didn't stop it. I called the guy who is responceable. It was a
> ISP that had an open port. I was on the phone to him whilst they were on
> the problem. You can thank my ISP for tracking and stoping the repeat
> messages. Rod Preston had nothing to do with it! If you want to find out
> what happened call Mark Birnich at 216-498-2821. Or call my ISP and
> speak to Chris at 510-293-0633.
Hello, I'd like to thank all the folks that resolved the recent flood of
recirculating email. In particular, Jim, Mark, and Chris. Good work!
Given what happened, is there anything that can be done to prevent it
happening again? george
p.s. when someone has the time, I'd like to know what caused the
flood... thanks.