Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian, Sorry to hear about your problems with these fine up standing people (not). Good move deleting everything. Hope you get the security sorted. All the best Mark - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 6:30 AM Subject: [Leica] lost mail > Tonight mejac.palo-alto.ca.us was the victim of a major spam attack. Somebody figured out how to get through my anti-spam protection and was sending millions of "buy viagra" and "lower mortgage rates" messages from my server. Grouch. I've plugged that hole, but the vermin will probably find another one eventually. > > I couldn't face going through a million messages and deleting the junk, so I just deleted everything. > > If you sent a message to leica-users in the last hour or two and it didn't get through, and your words were so important that you'd like to repeat them, please do. > > (For those of you who care, there was ~someuser/cgi-bin/whatever.pl that was invoking sendmail. I took away that user's cgi-bin privileges) > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html