Hi everyone,
My sincere apologies to the 10,000 or so people who received spam sent through our TidBITS text issue list today. Joe alerted me to the problem while I was out picking up Tristan at his grandmother's house, so I rushed home to deal with it. When I saw that our server still had some 12,000 messages to deliver, I shut it down and deleted the entire outgoing mail queue. After examining the traces of what happened, I don't believe it was a targeted attack, just the result of an automated spam program happening to forge mail to and from exactly the wrong addresses in such a way to evade various anti-spam blockades we have in place. I believe that I've identified the hole and plugged it, and that this shouldn't be possible again. I feel terrible about allowing this to happen, and again, I apologize for the inconvenience.
with little cheer... -Adam
PS: It took me quite some time to figure out how to get past our spam barriers even to send this note to the list!
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