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1. 10:42 AM - Post Mortem - Matronics List Pummeled By Spam... (Matt Dralle)
2. 06:58 PM - Re: Post Mortem - Matronics List Pummeled By Spam... (tmc664@comcast.net)
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| Subject: | Post Mortem - Matronics List Pummeled By Spam... |
Dear Listers,
Over a 3-day period, Thursday 11/8 though Saturday 11/10, the Matronics Lists were
pummeled with over 450,000 spam emails causing posting delays and a few duplicate
messages. Yeah, I really said nearly half a million spams! The good
news is that I don't believe a single one of them actually made it to the Lists
thanks to the aggressive List filtering code and the Barracuda spam filter.
The bad news was that it caused quite a back log of email messages starting Friday
and continuing until late Saturday when I noticed that delivery seemed a bit
sluggish. By about 11pm on Saturday night, I had managed to get the backlog
cleared out of the spam filter by temporarily adjusting some of the filtering.
A check of the queues this morning, and everything looks like its working great
and there are no incoming filtering delays and spam levels appear to be back
to "normal".
There were a number of people asking what was going on, so I thought that I'd send
out a follow up post mortem on the event...
November is the annual List Fund Raiser. Your contribution directly enables me
to buy systems like the Barracuda spam filter that keep the List free of that
garbage. Please make a contribution to support your Lists!
http://www.matronics.com/contribution
Thank you!
Matt Dralle
Matronics Email List Administrator
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| Subject: | Re: Post Mortem - Matronics List Pummeled By Spam... |
Matt
Sorry to hear about the envasion. this is a perfect oportunity for me to ask to
remove me from tjhe list. I've tried it per the list instructions but have
not been successful. thanks for taking the time to remove me.
Best wishes
tom McIntyre
-------------- Original message --------------
From: Matt Dralle <dralle@matronics.com>
>
> Dear Listers,
>
> Over a 3-day period, Thursday 11/8 though Saturday 11/10, the Matronics Lists
> were pummeled with over 450,000 spam emails causing posting delays and a few
> duplicate messages. Yeah, I really said nearly half a million spams! The good
> news is that I don't believe a single one of them actually made it to the Lists
> thanks to the aggressive List filtering code and the Barracuda spam filter.
>
> The bad news was that it caused quite a back log of email messages starting
> Friday and continuing until late Saturday when I noticed that delivery seemed
a
> bit sluggish. By about 11pm on Saturday night, I had managed to get the backlog
> cleared out of the spam filter by temporarily adjusting some of the filtering.
>
> A check of the queues this morning, and everything looks like its working great
> and there are no incoming filtering delays and spam levels appear to be back
to
> "normal".
>
> There were a number of people asking what was going on, so I thought that I'd
> send out a follow up post mortem on the event...
>
> November is the annual List Fund Raiser. Your contribution directly enables me
> to buy systems like the Barracuda spam filter that keep the List free of that
> garbage. Please make a contribution to support your Lists!
>
> http://www.matronics.com/contribution
>
> Thank you!
>
> Matt Dralle
> Matronics Email List Administrator
>
>
>
>
>
>
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<DIV>Matt</DIV>
<DIV>Sorry to hear about the envasion. this is a perfect oportunity for me
to ask to remove me from tjhe list. I've tried it per the list instructions
but have not been successful. thanks for taking the time to remove
me.</DIV>
<DIV>Best wishes</DIV>
<DIV>tom McIntyre</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Matt Dralle
<dralle@matronics.com> <BR><BR>> --> RV3-List message posted by: Matt
Dralle <DRALLE@MATRONICS.COM><BR>> <BR>> Dear Listers, <BR>> <BR>>
Over a 3-day period, Thursday 11/8 though Saturday 11/10, the Matronics Lists
<BR>> were pummeled with over 450,000 spam emails causing posting delays
and a few <BR>> duplicate messages. Yeah, I really said nearly half a million
spams! The good <BR>> news is that I don't believe a single one of them
actually made it to the Lists <BR>> thanks to the aggressive List filtering
code and the Barracuda spam filter. <BR>> <BR>> The bad news was that
it caused quite a back log of email messages starting <BR>> Friday and continuing
until late Saturday when I noticed that delivery seemed a <BR>> bit
sluggish. By about 11pm on Saturday night, I had ma
naged
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