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Re: [Mgs] Team.Net Notes

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Subject: Re: [Mgs] Team.Net Notes
From: "P. Chast" <pchast@francomm.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:41:44 -0500
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Sounds like a reasonable precaution. Wish it were not necessary.

Thanks for your hard work.

Pete


On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:02:03 -0500, Mark J Bradakis <mark@bradakis.com>  
wrote:

> One thing I have done to counteract the recent flurry of hijacked email  
> addresses
> sending bad stuff through the the list is change the list settings for  
> number of
> allowed recipients.  Most of them include at least half a dozen or so  
> addresses,
> maybe more, in each message as they go through the victim's address list.
>
> I've lowered the limit to 3.  While this will stop a fair amount of the  
> bad stuff
> from getting sent to the lists, it will also delay some legitimate  
> messages.
> If folks send off nested replies with many recipients their mail will be  
> held,
> waiting for me to approve it and send it on.  I'll work on being more  
> diligent
> about going through the pending admin requests [ 7,438 at the moment ]
> to separate the wheat from the chaff.
>
> And an advance notice - the annual fund drive will be coming up in a  
> month or so,
> I will try and get all the forum and FTP issues resolved before asking  
> for contributions.
> Never ending chores - I think I'll ask the man in charge for a raise!
>
> mjb.
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