Jarrod Major wrote:
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Hey Group,
After a flurry of communication back and forth between us and the hosting provider, we have managed to get the clug-talk list back up.
The good news is that they were able to provide us with a partial list of subscribers from sometime in September. That means that anyone subscribing after September 22 was lost. We are going to get in touch with the people who signed up for membership from that point on but we suspect that we will be losing some folks. Please talk to people you know that are interested in CLUG and/or Linux who may or may not have been on the list. Find out if there were on the list, ask them if they have received this message or the soon to follow message from the Secretary.
The website will have an updated message instructing people to resubscribe if they haven't received this message so hopefully that will catch some of them as well.
At this point in time we still do not have an explanation of how this list disappeared. We have several other mailing lists and they were left untouched which suggests that the clug-talk list was targetted for deletion. This theory is also supported by the fact that the other lists are working just fine. As such this list could disappear at any time if the perpetrator uses the same technique as they did previously. We are aware of a mailman vulnerability but we are not sure if it applies to the version of mailman our host uses. They have been notified of this regardless.
Now on to accounts...
You will have to request your password to be sent to you from the mailman administrator http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca at the bottom under 'clug-talk Subscribers' if you previously had your account set to digest mode then you will have to reset this as the mailing list is currently set to send everyone subscribed individual messages. For those of you that don't know what digest mode is, it is where you reveice one email on a periodic basis that contains all clug-talk emails in one rather than each one separately. Some people find this preferable, your choice.
Also, anyone having multiple addresses subscribed will have to go in to change which address(es) you actually want email sent to. The reason for having multiple email addresses subscribed is so that you aren't limited in your ability to post from a single address.
I apologize for you having to do any of this, we were not able to restore the list with all the settings intact and it was felt that you had waited (patiently) long enough for the list to be recreated.
Thank-you.
- -- Jarrod Major
Kudos for good work, to Jarrod and the guru gang. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Bourassa at http://members.shaw.ca/djb.enterprises/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't." ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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