[TN-Bird] NOTICE FOR TN-BIRDS SUBSCRIBERS
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "TN-birds" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:47:38 -0500
TN-Birders:
Some time around 3 a.m. today, 10 March, TN-Birds Net came
under attack from spammer addresses attempting to position our
list for the delivery of future advertising spam.
Thanks to the very swift detection by one of our list administrators,
we have intercepted the attacks and gotten ahead of it.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO ANYTHING TO SECURE EITHER YOUR
COMPUTER OR TO PREVENT SPAM DELIVERY. JUST CONTINUE
AS NORMAL.
Administrator Dave Worley called this morning to say we had begun
to see the invasion. It first began when a post was placed to TN-Birds
by a legitimate subscribe who actually had absolutely nothing to do
with the problem. When TN-Birds Net mailed it to the list, the legitimate
message was sent to subscribers and two of them were immediately
bounced back to your administrators by Freelist as accounts not active
or available for mail delivery from TN-Birds.
Worley then noted that we had gotten a string of overnight subscribers
that had highly suspect e-mail addresses. He called me. Dave and I
managed to get to the administrator functions of the list and shut those
down so they would not be able to post to the list. This blocked any
future spam deliver by those addresses.
There have been about a dozen subscriptions all coming from e-mail
at yahoo.com addresses.
If you are a legitimate subscriber to TN-Birds Net and you are a
yahoo.com e-mail user, please do not post anything to TN-Birds Net
until such time that I notify the list that yahoo.com subscribers are
again free to post to the list. This should be less than 24 hrs. By
doing this we will be limiting the inflow of messages and subscriptions
from yahoo.com addresses and allow us to stay abreast and/or ahead
of any similar yahoo.com subscribers trying to position our list to send
us spam.
We continue to attempt to deliver you the highest quality of list service
available and to make your online birding communications useful, safe
and enjoyable.
Thanks for you help.
Wallace Coffey
Moderator, TN-Birds Net
Tennessee Ornithological Society
Bristol, TN
=================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER=====================
The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with
first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation.
You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds
you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should
appear in the first paragraph.
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Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN
wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Assistant Moderator Andy Jones
Cleveland, OH
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Assistant Moderator Dave Worley
Rosedale, VA
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