Dear all, We’ve had reports of spam on this mailing list. I thought I’d fixed this issue, but it seems like they were still getting through. To solve this for good, the mailing lists have been updated so only members of the list can post. As always, anyone can sign up to be a member of the list, so I would hope this isn’t too much of a hurdle. Anyone trying to send an email to the list who is not a member will receive an email explaining that they need to subscribe first.
We also had an incident of someone being unable to send an email to the list due to reaching the (rather low) max email size limit. This limit has been increased so reasonably sized attachments (screenshots, etc) can be sent. Our new mailing list provider has informed me that some people may not have received all the mail sent on the list over the past few days due to our list triggering some spam filters. I believe, at the time of writing, most of these filters have been lifted. I’ve been told these filters are based on a heuristics that were likely triggered due to the sudden influx of spam sent when the mailing lists were first reopened on the new service. Therefore, any remaining filters should be lifted after they recognize the vast majority of our traffic is legitimate. So, if you know of people not receiving emails, the advice I have been given is to wait. As always, thank you all for your patience. It turns out email is still a surprisingly difficult technology to work with :). Kind regards, Bobby -- Dr. Bobby R. Bruce Room 2235, Kemper Hall, UC Davis Davis, CA, 95616 web: https://www.bobbybruce.net > On Apr 23, 2020, at 7:25 PM, Bobby Bruce <bbr...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > > Dear all, > > This afternoon we found out our mailing list was not sending emails to > everyone who had subscribed to them. It seems this primarily affected those > with Microsoft-based email addresses (outlook et al.). I've been told some > filters were activated due to the high volume of email from our lists. After > some back and forth with our new provider, I have been told this issue is now > resolved. If you've asked a question on gem5-users/gem5-dev and have yet to > hear a response, I'd advise waiting a little bit (say, until tomorrow) and > perhaps asking again. I am unsure if the backlog of mail sent out during this > time will eventually be delivered, so I'd say it's best to wait and see. I'd > also advise list members to check their Spam folder for any mail that may > have been misclassified during this time. > > We've also had reports of real spam being sent to the lists. I apologize for > this, I believe this was due to a misconfiguration on our mailman server > which has since been fixed. If anyone notices any additional spam emails from > now on, please email me and I'll tighten up the rules on the mailing list to > prevent them. > > I apologize to everyone for this. It really shouldn't have happened and > caught us a bit off guard. I hope the mailing list services are back to a > usable state. Please let me know directly about any additional problems, big > or small, you encounter when using these lists. > > Kind regards, > Bobby > -- > Dr. Bobby R. Bruce > Room 2235, > Kemper Hall, UC Davis > Davis, > CA, 95616 > > web: https://www.bobbybruce.net <https://www.bobbybruce.net/>
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