[Leica] about today's mailbomb

[bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)]

Hi Saloon-keeper,

Thanks for your rapid action ................ which has halted the  
rata-ta-tat of arriving mail!

Sweaty brows .............. armpits?

Success with the deletions ................. !

Happily it happened during the waking hours of North America and  
Europe ............ otherwise ........ phew!

B.


On 21-dec-2005, at 22:21, Brian Reid wrote:

> Today something went wrong on Joe Codispoti's computer and it  
> forwarded the ENTIRE contents of Joe's inbox to the LUG.
>
> There are no message quotas in the LUG, so it was busily delivering  
> all of them to all of us. I discovered it when I got out of a  
> meeting at 11:45am California time, and shut down the LUG server  
> computer and deleted all of the Codispoti messages from the mail  
> delivery queues, then unsubscribed Joe and re-started the server  
> computer.
>
> Alas, LUGger Jon Stanton was /replying/ to every one of the bogus  
> messages, which had two side effects: it doubled the flow rate of  
> bad messages, and it caused several people to think that this  
> problem was happening to more than one person (Codispoti and  
> Stanton), which caused them to panic.
>
> Most of the time I let LUG messages go unmonitored. There are a few  
> people whose messages I moderate when they start to get on a rant,  
> but Joe isn't one of them. So about a hundred of these messages got  
> sent to all 1200 LUGgers before I could shut it off.
>
> Some of the messages in Joe's inbox were phishing attacks spoofing  
> PayPal, which caused Donna-Lee Phillips (who evidently must not be  
> a victim of such phishing attacks) to think that PayPal security  
> had been breached. Here is the PayPal webpage explaining these  
> attacks:
>
> https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/general/SecuritySpoof- 
> outside
>
> Some of the Codispoti messages were porn spam that he hadn't had a  
> chance to delete yet; several of you made the assumption that those  
> spam messages were real. They weren't.
>
> I have stopped the flow of messages from Joe Codispoti and from Jon  
> Stanton, and as soon as we all finish talking about it we can get  
> back to our usual chatter.
>
> I would appreciate it, and I'm sure Joe would too, if you'd delete  
> from your mailboxes all mail from Joe Codispoti. I'm going to try  
> to figure out how to delete them all from the LUG archives, though  
> I've never had to delete that many messages before, and it may take  
> me a while to figure out who to do a mass purge of the archives.
>
> Brian Reid
> Saloon Keeper
> cleaning up after a barfight, it seems
>
>
>
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