[ofa-general] STOP the onslaught of EWG spam

[Jeff Becker]

Hi all. I'm very sorry all the SPAM happened. Unfortunately, I left on 
vacation just before it started, and was away from e-mail. I just got 
back this afternoon.

A big thank you to Jeff Squyres for stepping in. I'll see about 
upgrading Mailman to the latest version on the current OFA server.

We are in the midst of transitioning to the new server (which has a much 
more recent version of Mailman, and will be upgraded on a timely basis). 
Unfortunately, I am very busy trying to get NFS-RDMA backports ready for 
OFED 1.4, and as I believe this is a higher priority, I don't really 
have much time to tend to the server switchover. If anyone would like to 
help, I'd greatly appreciate it. In fact, if someone else wants to 
replace me as admin  (I've been doing it over a year now), I wouldn't 
mind (although I'm perfectly happy to continue - just much busier than 
when I started). Please let me know. Thanks, and again, apologies for 
the SPAM.

-jeff

Jeff Squyres wrote:
> 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.
>