From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Mon Oct 6 14:52:41 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom7 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom7@www2.open-std.org Received: by www2.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 3ACB9C178E3; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:52:41 +0200 (CET DST) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from mk-filter-2-a-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-filter-2-a-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.100.53]) by www2.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9960C178E2 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:52:37 +0200 (CET DST) X-Trace: 87727929/mk-filter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/B2C/$b2c-THROTTLED-DYNAMIC/b2c-CUSTOMER-DYNAMIC-IP/88.104.138.36/None/d.muxworthy@bcs.org.uk X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 88.104.138.36 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: d.muxworthy@bcs.org.uk X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Al0BAFSn6UhYaIok/2dsb2JhbAAIunmBag X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,367,1220223600"; d="scan'208";a="87727929" Received: from 88-104-138-36.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (HELO [192.168.1.2]) ([88.104.138.36]) by smtp.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 06 Oct 2008 13:52:36 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <969C9B63-A689-429D-AD10-F9F7AC79B03F@bcs.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: sc22wg5@open-std.org From: David Muxworthy Subject: more problems with the sc22wg5 list Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:52:48 +0100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk As many members will be aware, at about 08:13 PST on 4 October a spammer sent a message to each individual address on the whitelist for the sc22wg5 mailing list. The whitelist has been openly accessible on the web for several years, but without direct links to it, and this is the first time so far as I am aware that there have been problems with its being accessible. In a probably futile attempt to prevent a repeat, the file permissions on the list and whitelist were changed at about 19:30 BST on 4 October. However it appears that this resulted in the sc22wg5 list becoming inoperable. Since then five messages have been rejected by the mailserver; there is no way of knowing whether or not they were genuine. Therefore if any member has sent a message to sc22wg5 in the past 48 hours or so, please re-send it. The last genuine message to be distributed was no 3606 "Ballot processing and SC22 meeting" from John Reid on 3 October. Meanwhile the original file permissions have been restored and advice sought from the server operator on how best to combat the problem. David Muxworthy