[ewg] STOP the onslaught of EWG spam

Ryan, Jim jim.ryan at intel.com
Mon Aug 18 16:03:12 PDT 2008


I got 'em too. Jeff, when you can, plz send the new pswd to me. I can't do my admin duties at the moment

Tx, j

-----Original Message-----
From: ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Bill Boas
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 4:19 PM
To: 'Jeff Squyres'; 'OpenFabrics EWG'; 'OpenFabrics General'
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I also notice that our mailmain installation is hopelessly out of
date; it's v2.1.5 and the current version (including several important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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