offtopic email concern.. maybe ontopic????

LucyBop · August 28, 2003 12:55PM

my email has crawled to a screeeeeechin' halt....... atleast i aint getting spam.... however, i often get emails with questions regarding coins.... folks, i am not ignoring my emails.... they just are not coming thru for some reason....

tjkillian · August 28, 2003 12:59PM

A very famous blacklist got DDOS, osirusoft.com, and to quit the blacklist game, he blacklisted the entire world (*.*.*.*) so anyone who subscribed to their blacklists won't get any mail. Needless to say, everyone is dumping them for their blacklist needs.

Tom

FatMan · August 28, 2003 1:02PM

Hey Tom. Sounds very interesting. Now could you explain in English what you just said.

ElectricEye · August 28, 2003 1:05PM

tj, you're starting to sound like doops

tjkillian · August 28, 2003 1:13PM

Sorry about that. A DDOS is a Distributed Denial of Service attack. Basically they get a couple of hundred thousand computer (via a virus) to attack a website and preventing anyone else to access it. Think of 100,000 people all calling the same phone number continuously for a month!

Blacklists are lists of known spammers that were updated continuously. Email servers subscribed to these and when a email came in, it was checked against one of these blacklists. If the sender were on it, then the email was marked as spam and automatically deleted.

Now the bad guys attacked and defeated one of the good guys because of this DDOS attack. The person who owned and managed the site gave up because the attack was too strong. I changed his blacklists from just the bad guys to every single person in the world. If you subscribed to the lists, no email of any kind went through. Email administrators had to reconfigure their email servers to NOT use the blacklist so the good email went through.

Is that clearer?

Tom

FatMan · August 28, 2003 1:15PM

Much clearer.

Thanks Tom

LucyBop · August 28, 2003 1:16PM

I don't know anything about a blacklist... all I know is no email for me!

FatMan · August 28, 2003 1:21PM

Lucy,

The company that I run my T1 with, Newsouth Communications, completely shut down all emails yesterday for about 12 hours dealing with viruses. I have an email address that I have not used for about 3 months that has received about 50 virus messages a day for the past 3 or 4 days. Same could be affecting your provider.

Fairlaneman · August 28, 2003 3:30PM

Lucy

You should feel lucky that no Email is coming through.

Last week on one day I got over 500 messages. It took me over 6 hours to figure out what the heck was going on. At the end I finally had to Block all Email and even some of the Forum Members that had shown up in this attack. Also included , and blocked, was messages from PCGS and NGC. I have a idea where the attack got its start on my computer as most of the messages were from coin related people that would have used this one site that I got a message from on the day of the attack.

Anyway after a few days I opened up the Email to run regularly and so far so good.

Ken

offtopic email concern.. maybe ontopic????

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