[theforum] [Content] Lists??

[Dean Mah]

You'll also find that at the start of the month, because of the monthly
password reminders, that the server gets bogged down handling dead
e-mail addresses.  However, this is a good time to locate and unsub
those addresses.

Dean


David Kaufman wrote:
> Hi Faye,
> 
> FayeC <ftarzwell at fayec.com> wrote:
>> I subscribe to the tech list and since yesterday I haven't got any
>> emails although I have just checked and there were emails sent to the
>> list yesterday.
>> I could see that my own email sent this morning is listed in the
>> archives for this week but I never got it in my inbox. I have evolt
>> as trusted sender in my spam filtering settings and have also checked
>> to make sure my filters were not bouncing emails. So far...nothing...
>> I also checked my subscription settings and everything is ok there.
>> Any help with this is appreciated since I cannot access the archives
>> from work I am a little stuck and would love to see the replies to my
>> posting.
> 
> The evolt list server was overwhelmed by spammers sending virus-infected 
> in recent days which caused mail delivery to slow to a crawl.  Your 
> post, for instance, which appears to have been sent to theList Thursday 
> morning was not delivered (to me, at least) until yesterday (Saturday) 
> morning.
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience.  We're trying to get our spam/virus 
> scanning software reconfigured to deal with these attacks.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -dave