Hello Thomas Fernandez, On or about Friday, February 21, 2003 at 02:52:02GMT +0700 (which was 2:52 PM in the tropics where I live) Thomas Fernandez posted:
TF> Come again? How can that misconfigured spampal reply have triggered a TF> filter to send the message to 11,000+ people? My CNET virus newsletter filter picked up his hccnet.nl address by mistake. It automagically sends these virus newsletters out to a group containing 11,589 members. Let's see that 19 messages X 11,589 members, that's 220,191 bogus messages this just sent out. Nice job Frank, that probably caused a spike in traffic similar to a minor viral or DOS attack! I've modified the filter to avoid this by including two filter criteria, but it is difficult as the subject line evolves occasionally. Putting it AFTER my TBUDL filter should help as well. -- Warmest tropical wishes, Spike ** The strength of women is that psychology cannot explain them. ** /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Against HTML Mail \ / If it aint a webpage it shouldn't be HTML. X Say NO! to bloatmail - ban HTML mail! / \ Ask Spikey, he hates everything (HTML). -------------------------------------------------- Using TheBat! v1.62i hamstrung by Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1' -------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
