I second this message thank the gaming gods for thomasss, the real thomas,
Lisa Hayes
www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Duff" <[email protected]>
To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Moderator List Status
Thanks to you and anyone else that takes the time to fix these issues! We
are most grateful for all that you all do to keep us safe so that we can
enjoy this list. Now lets get back to gaming!
-----Original Message-----
From: Gamers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 4:52 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: [Audyssey] Moderator List Status
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 [email protected]
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