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--- Dan Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We got lucky this morning -- someone almost managed
> to spam nearly every
> one of these email lists.
>
> A tip of the hat to Kyle Hansen, a member of the
> G-Books list, who
> alerted me as soon as he received the one posting
> that did get through.
> Fortunately I saw his email this morning (some
> weekends I try to avoid
> the computer for a day or two) and went into action.
>
> I discovered that the spammer had begun the
> subscription process for
> almost every single list -- from Apple IIs through
> the G-List. In cases
> where his subscription was pending, I marked it
> banned and set it to
> reject his postings. In the cases where he had not
> yet begun the
> subscription process, I preemptively banned him.
>
> I have also reported him to his ISP and the mail
> servers that processed
> or relayed his message.
>
> This is the first time in the history of the list
> someone has pulled this
> off. I hope it will also be the last. Thanks to the
> two-step subscription
> process and Kyle's quick action only one list was
> subjected to the spam.
>
> Should anything like this happen in the future,
> please send a note to
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" so I can deal with it as
> expeditiously as
> possible.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc.
> publisher, Low End Mac
> <http://lowendmac.com/>
> publisher, Digital-Views.com
> <http://digital-views.com/>
> publisher, Digigraphica
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