[Leica] about today's mailbomb

[jwlee01 at gmail.com (John Lee)]

Brian,

Do you think Joe Codispoti is aware of what is going with his computer?

-- John

On 12/21/05, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> 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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