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[ryan at hack.net (Ryan K. Brooks)]

I made a post about this.


This is what happens:

    - A third party computer, infected with one of these email 
viruses-likely running OUTLOOK- sends an email.

    - The email has a forged source/destination of your address and the 
at-l server.

    - It bounces and returns to the server.  (not sure what it bounces 
off- probably something not liking the header)

    - The server thinks it sent you a message and it bounced back.

The reason that you're not able to turn yourself back on is the same 
reason new people can't subscribe- I'm back to getting up to 1000 
messages an hour in the inbound queue.   I'm trying to manually catch 
requests and enter them directly.    

So, drop me an email (if folks can see this) if you need some sort of 
manual intervention.

Somebody out there has a very infected computer on a broadband 
(dsl,cable,work) connection.   I'll say it again:  if you're running 
outlook and never checked for a virus, you have one.    If you have a 
windows machine on the internet w/o a firewall and haven't kept up on 
patches (weekly of late) you have a virus.   If you're file-sharing and 
don't have a virus checker, you have one.   If you haven't updated your 
virus scanning software, you have a virus.

I'm currently back to researching forum options.    Microsoft and AOL 
are making it impossible to run an email list!

I apologize if this message has a poor tone, I've been struggling with 
this problem for too long and it kills me that it's giving the AT-L a 
bad reputation.

-Ryan

The Lurker wrote:

>You may think it is just a test, but that business has made my reading of this list intermittant at 
>best.  Periodicaly I get a message that I have been terminated for excessive bounces.  This comnes 
>in a message that says to just reply and I will be reenabled.  I do and I'm not.  I do get a 
>message from the server that something is wrong with the message, something about a code being 
>expired.  I always reply immediately that I get the message, seldome more than 24 hours after the 
>earliest time it could have been sent.  
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>I sent a message to the list manager email id asking for a copy of one of the bounced messages and 
>got no reply.  I need (actuallt, my ISP needs) that message to figure out what is triggering the 
>bounce from our end.  I have not gotten a copy of the message, or, for that matter, an email 
>telling me why it can't be done.  
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>Please......
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>Lurker
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>9/23/03 11:34:41 AM, plodder@juno.com wrote:
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>>This is a test.  I seem so send to at-l and then get a message something about bouncing.  After 3 
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>times, I have to go and enable my account.
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