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System Problems Item
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Jun 22 11:04 UTC 2002 |
This item is for system problems. If something on Grex isn't working
right (line noise on a modem, weird behavior from a program, etc.),
this is the place to announce it. Except for security holes. If you
find a hole in system security, mail information about it to "staff".
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jared
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response 1 of 293:
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Jun 25 15:46 UTC 2002 |
i've received a lot of spam today that appears to have come
from the "pal" account.
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jep
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response 2 of 293:
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Jun 25 16:11 UTC 2002 |
Backtalk is down.
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mooncat
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response 3 of 293:
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Jun 25 16:32 UTC 2002 |
Backtalk appears to be back up, for the moment, that's how I'm getting
here.
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carson
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response 4 of 293:
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Jun 25 22:32 UTC 2002 |
re #1: (I received a lot of spam today, period. it was certainly odd
to see so much directed at my Grex account; usually, at least
of late, it's been one or two at a time.)
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mdw
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response 5 of 293:
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Jun 25 23:25 UTC 2002 |
The total amount of spam directed at grex seems to have gone *way* up
this week. In a typical week (say, June 16-23), grex might reject
something like 765 pieces of suspected spam. Since June 23, (ie, 2
days), grex has rejected 6578 pieces of suspected spam. As best I can
tell, nearly all of the bounced mail really was spam. It looked like a
rather large # of open relay hosts had been used, and delivery had been
attempted to more than 2000 grex mail addresses. A number of different
kinds of spammers may be involved. I don't have enough data to say
whether this was directed against grex, or is just a smaller part of
some larger spam deluge.
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carson
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response 6 of 293:
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Jun 26 01:51 UTC 2002 |
(ah. thanks for the info, Marcus.)
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cmcgee
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response 7 of 293:
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Jun 26 02:10 UTC 2002 |
Yes, I've been getting spam this week in accounts that seldom have any at
all (here on Grex).
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oval
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response 8 of 293:
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Jun 26 05:11 UTC 2002 |
i've been bombarded the past few days as well at my panix account. :(
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gull
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response 9 of 293:
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Jun 26 13:12 UTC 2002 |
Oddly, I've seen a big drop-off in spam at work for no reason I can figure
out.
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jhudson
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response 10 of 293:
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Jun 26 17:14 UTC 2002 |
I got none. lol
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danr
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response 11 of 293:
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Jun 26 17:32 UTC 2002 |
resp:9. Spam seems to come and go, like the tides. Today, as you note,
has been relatively spamless.
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russ
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response 12 of 293:
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Jun 26 22:06 UTC 2002 |
I had an inordinate amount of spam also, which I forwarded to uce.
I would propose that the federal death penalty be extended to spamming.
We'd be sure to clean out some of the sleazier elements of society. ;-)
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eskarina
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response 13 of 293:
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Jun 26 23:23 UTC 2002 |
I've never gotten any spam on grex. But I got 20 more than usual on my MSU
account today.
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other
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response 14 of 293:
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Jun 27 05:12 UTC 2002 |
I receive almost nothing BUT spam on my grex account, so I've changed my
.forward to uce and am using my upstageleft.net addresses instead.
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eskarina
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response 15 of 293:
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Jun 27 20:39 UTC 2002 |
did you give out your email address on grex?
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carson
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response 16 of 293:
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Jun 27 21:53 UTC 2002 |
(it's been a long time since I've given out my Grex address for anything,
but I figure spam will be one of the disadvantages of being at the top of
the password file.) ;)
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oval
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response 17 of 293:
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Jun 28 00:29 UTC 2002 |
from hubbie:
"i just got some spam relayed through the Defense Intelligence Agency in
Wash DC ..
http://samspade.org/t/whois?a=11.64.149.229&server=magic
good job we (sic) are not fighting a war against spam ;)
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other
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response 18 of 293:
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Jun 28 05:19 UTC 2002 |
It's been a long while since I've given out my Grex address for anything,
but it is still on my inactive (yet still present) angelfire.com account,
and it appears on a lot of publicly accessible (and spiderable) Grex
webpages due to my boardmembership.
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oval
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response 19 of 293:
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Jun 28 08:07 UTC 2002 |
just passing this along from the panix mod:
":Notice to users running Unix at home (elr) Thu Jun 27 21:09:40 2002
Panix customers who run home versions of Unix should pay close attention
to these recent security advisories:
OpenSSH remote root compromise:
http://www.openssh.org/txt/iss.adv
BSD-based operating system resolver client buffer overflow:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/803539
Apache chunking remote vulnerability:
http://httpd.apache.org/info/security_bulletin_20020620.txt
The resolver client buffer overflow is particularly scary, since it
could theoretically be exploited through a firewall or on a machine
that is not running any server programs.
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janc
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response 20 of 293:
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Jun 28 12:49 UTC 2002 |
I dunno. If I wanted to send mail to Eric, I'd probably send it to
other@grex.org even though he has never told me to use that addresss.
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other
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response 21 of 293:
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Jun 29 05:43 UTC 2002 |
Well, please send it to upstageleft.net instead. Any address there will
do.
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jlamb
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response 22 of 293:
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Jul 1 13:56 UTC 2002 |
to help prevent spam do not use your grex account to sign up for things on
the internet. get a yahoo or hotmail account to sign up for these things.
these accounts are always targets of spam anyways!!!.
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davel
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response 23 of 293:
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Jul 1 14:37 UTC 2002 |
Hmm. So to reduce the spam I get I should open another account where I'll
get even more spam?
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rcurl
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response 24 of 293:
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Jul 1 15:37 UTC 2002 |
You might get *different* spam..... 8^}
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