[ewg] STOP the onslaught of EWG spam

[Bhuiyan, Lutfor]

I got 4000+ spam emails with "ewg" tag. Unfortunately the filter in my blackberry didn't work. I couldn't unsubscribe either bcz I lost my password. And my password reminder got lost in those thousand emails. So, I had to turn off my radio in my BB and delete the emails offline.
I couldn't do any work in the last 36 hours! 

Thanks for taking care of this.
-Lutfor

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/LB


----- Original Message -----
From: ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org <ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org>
To: 'Jeff Squyres' <jsquyres at cisco.com>; 'OpenFabrics EWG' <ewg at lists.openfabrics.org>; 'OpenFabrics General' <general at lists.openfabrics.org>
Sent: Sun Aug 17 16:18:35 2008
Subject: RE: [ewg] STOP the onslaught of EWG spam

Thank you very much Jeff, and thank you for taking this action on the other
mail lists which were probably just as vulnerable - I has over 3400 "spam"
messages - did others have as many, or was I targeted? :-)!!!
Bill Boas
VP, Business  Development
System Fabric Works
510-375-8840
bboas at systemfabricworks.com
www.systemfabricworks.com


-----Original Message-----
From: ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
[mailto:ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Squyres
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 5:21 AM
To: OpenFabrics EWG; OpenFabrics General
Subject: [ewg] STOP the onslaught of EWG spam

The EWG list has gotten spam bombed over the last few hours.  I lost  
count at 500+ spams in my inbox.

I therefore logged into openfabrics.org and changed the site-wide  
password for Mailman (I have notified Jeff Becker of the new  
password).  I then changed the EWG list to silently discard all non- 
member posts.  Since I didn't know if other OF lists were being spam- 
bombed, I did the same for all OF lists as well.

The spam onslaught has now stopped.

I also notice that our mailmain installation is hopelessly out of  
date; it's v2.1.5 and the current version (including several important  
security fixes since v2.1.5) is v2.1.11.  Someone needs to fix this  
ASAP.

-- 
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems

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