>The lists were down for 2 hours today because we had a massive influx of >spam targetted on the lists. I have code that deals with it, but it still >caused the lists to hang. I have some new code to stop the list handing and >remove the spam with no problems. At no time will spam be sent to the list >members. >I hate spammers.
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