[Discuss] Mailing Lists Down

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-11-03 00:11-0800 David Bronaugh wrote:

> Andrew Willard wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> A quick note to let everyone know that our mail server
>> is going to temporarily down until a slight spamming
>> issue can be resolved. We appreciate your patience during
>> this period. Thanks... the management.
> Hi all,
>
> This email is to notify you that the mailing list is (tentatively) back up. 
> We're going to be watching the server carefully for the next few days to 
> watch for recurrences of nastiness, but we think it should be OK now.
>

What was the exact issue? Is this a problem all mailing list admins should
be aware of?  If so, do you have a web reference for a discussion of the
issue?

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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