Hello List, As all of you or at least most of you know by now yesterday around 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time an unnamed perpetrator/perpetrators began sending various sexually explicit messages disguised as legitimate list members to the list. Along with the sexually explicit messages they also decided to fake a number of moderator messages from me saying that the situation was being handled when in fact that was just a smoke screen to mess with everyone's heads. I myself was unaware of the situation until early this morning after I woke up and had breakfast. Fortunately though, one of my administrators from my webhost was subscribed to the list and was able to take immediate action once the spam began poring in. He filed an emergency ticket, and around 10:41 PM last night we got word back that Linode had cut off all out going mail to this list. So what does that mean for the status of the list?
At this point we think we have stopped or at least slowed the source of the spam for the time being. If spam continues to flood in to this list we will take immediate action and put the entire list on moderated status until such time that the spam is stopped for good. However, as no new spam has come in since late last night we think we have stopped the spam for the time being and moderating the list is not necessary at this time. However, rest assured we have people monitoring the situation to see if there is any renewed spam attacks. As for the perpetrator or perpetrators there is a lot of speculation as to the individuals involved, and we are following up all leads and information as we have it. All I can say at this time is we don't know who is behind the attacks yet, but I expect to know more once we have a chance to look at the logs and follow the e-mails back to their source if we can. There are talented people working on the issue, and all we can do right now is wait and see what they come up with. In the mean time let us get back to gaming, and hope things are taken care of. Sincerely, Thomas Ward Owner-Moderator of the Audyssey Mailing List gamers-ow...@audyssey.org --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
