Hello accmailers ... Here is some good news and some bad news.
1. Good news for everybody first! Despite persistent abuse of this service, szs.net wishes to keep www4mail available to as many genuine users as possible. We have been tempted to close it, but have decided not to. 2. Bad news for a few! www4mail at szs.net is maintained by one person (me) who has very little time, and a rather uncertain financial future. I don't have the time or resources to combat abusers in a sophisticated way -- so the action I have decided to take is direct. The number of abusers is relatively small, but their actions are becoming increasingly unpleasant -- including attempts to subvert our www4mail system, and even to hack into it. Like the vast amount of spam we receive, 95% of the abusive behaviour comes from one geographical area, and our list of banned email addresses is dominated by the same two countries. So -- with immediate effect, www4mail at szs.net is no longer available to residents of the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Of course, it is not fair. But the alternative is to close the service to everybody. We hope that this drastic action will end our problems, and we will review the situation after four weeks. ::: SZS ::: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To contribute to the discussion, email to accmail@listserv.aol.com To unsubscribe, email to the *admin* address lists...@listserv.aol.com with UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL as the message body. WWW: http://emailonly.szs.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
