Once again several subscribers have been deleted from Wisbirdn. This time they
are from the wi.rr.com domain. Several other domains remain affected at this
time including me.com, mac.com, icloud.com, tds.net, centurytet.net, new.rr.com
plus a smattering of other small or specialized domains. These may or may not
be dropped - we have no way of knowing.
Unfortunately whenever s subscriber’s account is hacked or someone tries to
send an attachment to the list, it results in dozens of subscriber domains
being put on a watchlist. They stay on the list for a while until they are
unsubscribed or the error status is cleared with no consequences. When we
notice someone’s account has been hacked we will remove the offending account
until the subscriber let’s us know that their address is again safe…but the
damage has already occurred no matter how quickly we react.
As stated before, neither Peter nor I have the authority to resubscribe (or for
that matter subscribe anyone). The request has to be generated from the
subscriber which we then can approve.
One domain that seems to consistently not be affected is gmail.com. Consider
picking up a gmail account. You don’t have to drop your current domain
whatever it may. Gmail is free and if all you only use it for is to subscribe
to Wisbirdn, it may be worth taking the time to add a gmail account.
The result in being dropped is that you may not receive or post to the list
until you are resubscribed. Which also means anyone who was dropped as of this
last night will not see this post unless they are reading the ABA birding news
where posts are mirrored: http://birding.aba.org/maillist/WI. For that matter, ;
if you suspect your account has been deleted, check the ABA address to see if
you’ve been missing posts. If you are, chances are your account has been
deleted.
We realize this is very frustrating - it certainly is for us because we see all
the errant posts alerts when they occur. Daily. In future if a subscriber’s
address is hacked more than once, they will not be allowed to rejoin using the
same address.
Tom Sykes
Wisbirdn List Owner
sykes@xxxxxxxxxx
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