Hello accmailers ... Last month we told you about our interim solution to the problem of continued abuse of our www4mail server. We decided we had to deny access to residents of the Russian Federation and Ukraine. We followed that by forbidding requests for documents in the .ru and .ua top level domains.
We acknowledged that this decision was unfair -- but it has stopped *all* the abuse. Unfortunately, the deluge of spam and attempts to break into our server (up to 10,000 per day) has not stopped. In fact it seems to have increased. We cannot carry on like this. So this is what is going to happen ... * We are going to take down the existing www4mail server within the next week. * We will replace it with a new installation as soon as we can, hopefully by mid-August. * Access to the new www4mail server will be separated from the membership of this list. We will be asking users to apply personally to be placed on the Access Control List. * Members of this list who have not abused our www4mail will all be welcome. We haven't worked out all the details yet, and we are willing to consider any suggestions from list members about how we should handle this. ::: 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/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
