Re: Complaint

Brian Gerst (bgerst@quark.vpplus.com)
Thu, 08 Jan 1998 19:07:14 -0500


Stefan Mars wrote:
>
> Dear sir,
>
> I am on a mailing list called "linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu" that
> recently has been spammed from your site. It seems that someone has tried
> to add that mailing list to several mailinglists that is served by
> majordomo@po.CWRU.Edu. First, I don't believe that the linux-kernel should
> be on that mailing list, it's enough high traffic as it is, but secondly
> and more importantly majordomo@po.CWRU.Edu is sending requests for
> confirmation to linux-kernel, thereby spamming quite a lot of people's
> mailboxes.
>
> So far I have counted 11 of those requests, and I have included one of
> them below for reference.

I count 115.

> I was hoping that you, as root of the site running the majordomo, could do
> something about it, as it is quite annoying.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stefan Mars

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Brian Gerst