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Re: What the? (Was: Re: 50 Megs of web space for $9.95 a month!)
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Wed, 3 May 2000 23:25:02 GMT
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todd's right, the MIT list has no spam protection, if it gets bad
we'll have to move all remaining subscribers from the MIT side and go
100% lugnet.
right now i still have 300+ people on the MIT list -- urgh.
fred
In your message you said:
> In lugnet.robotics.handyboard, Erin Windross writes:
> > Um...........sorry if this has happened before but, was this approved by
> > Todd to be posted on Lugnet? Or is it just a spam program that hacked into
> > Lugnet? I'm confused.
> > Erin
>
> Looks like it came in through the original Handy Board mailing list
> handyboard@media.mit.edu at MIT which is gatewayed with the
> lugnet.robotics.handyboard group/list.
>
> Hmm, that makes two spams now in the past few days. I don't think the HB
> mailing list software at MIT filters messages, and LUGNET's mail-to-news
> gateway accepts anything that comes in from a gatewayed external mailing list
> (it has to, or else it would reject regular messages from regular people).
> If it gets to be a real problem, we'll have to sever the link. (IIRC, it's
> Fred's eventual intention to migrate the list entirely away from the MIT
> server.)
>
> BTW, Fred, if you get this message, there's now a simplified subscription
> page to point people to which is HB specific:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/news/mail/sub/?lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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> and avoids the big huge complicated subscription settings list.
>
> --Todd
>
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