Re: [Bug-gnubg] sobig versus gnu.org mail

[Joern Thyssen]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:25:34PM +0200, Jim Segrave wrote
> 
> 
> geduld is een schone zaak.
> (patience is a virtue)
> 
> It's not that bad, you sent it to gnu.org at 19:13:42 GMT
> It took 2 hrs 10 minutes to get through the inbound mail handler and
> spam scanner to the list exploder.
> It took 23 hours to get back out again
> 
> This will be gnu.org getting thousands of sobig mails from people who
> at some point have mailed any of the lists hosted there and who now
> have sobig and haven't fixed it.

The Danish edition of Computer World has some virus and mail statistics
every week. In the last edition their statistics claimed that close to
50% of all mail sent that week was Sobig/W32!!!

No wonder the mailing server is down to it's knees!

Jørn

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