On 11/03/16 05:32, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > This list used to get A LOT more traffic. Not sure what happened over > the past few years.
The list went onto autopilot for a while when Don left Penguin, and when I took over the list I could see lots of bounces due to the list being blaclisted & also people unsubscribing but had no access to the box to be able to see what was going on. We lost a lot of subscribers back then. :-( I met with Penguin when I was a the Slurm User Group in 2013 and we went through the logs of the box they had it on and I found that the Mailman web interface was being used by nefarious people to mailbomb people with subscription requests via automated web services. Consequently the list was being blacklisted by many anti-spam services; both due to the mailbombing and because people would click the link without reading it and get subscribed and then mark traffic as spam. :-( Penguin graciously provided me with a VM that I could have root access on and then we worked to move the whole shebang over to it, plus I first blocked access to the parts of the Mailman web interface that could trigger subscription requests (hence why people have to email the list owner address to get added these days). Today we have around 1,500 subscribers so it's not that small a list! All the best, Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
