Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, interesting that a list that is NOT obsessed with long lenses get flooded with Viagra ads. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Pope" <leica.user@ntlworld.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:35 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] lost mail > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html