[Wine] Mailing list going beserk
Declan Moriarty
junk_mail at iol.ie
Tue Mar 20 07:07:57 CDT 2007
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 00:04 -0700, Gus Wirth wrote:
> I just received a flood of e-mails from the list, over 200 messages,
> with dates going back to July 2006. They all appear to be legitimate
> messages based on the header info and the body. Since I only joined the
> list a month ago, I doubt it's me.
>
> Is there something wrong with mailman?
evidently yes. I had 593 this morning.
>
> Or has someone contracted a virus and is spewing stuff out on the list?
>
Somebody is out of pocket for a lot of bandwidth :-P. The list is fairly
clean, (= little spam or viruses) so one must ascribe competence out
there. I'd be thinking hard disk errors, upgrade going wrong, that sort
of thing. It is a major pita.
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With Best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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