full-disclosure - Administrivia - Regarding bulk mail

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From: gobbles at hush.com (gobbles@...h.com)
Subject: Administrivia - Regarding bulk mail

lol

On On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 04:49:50 -0700 John Cartwright <johnc@...k.org.uk> wrote:
>Hi
>
>The recent deluge of spam deserves some discussion, I believe.
>
>Firstly, to clarify, this bulk mail is *not* from gobbles@...hmail.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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