[plug] Message for Bernd Felsche

[Bernd Felsche]

On Friday 20 February 2004 17:40, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <200402201727.30296.bernie>
>
> on Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:27:30PM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> > On Friday 20 February 2004 13:30, James Devenish wrote:
> > > I can't seem to contact you via e-mail directly, so I'm
> > > trying through the list. I could perhaps try to find a phone
> > > number for you, but I'd already written this e-mail to you --
> > > and it bounced back. Apparently, your mail relay is refusing
> > > mail from UWA, or
> >
> > Probably because of the massive attack I got due to infected
> > machines at UWA trying to ram gigabytes of SWEN down my 56k
> > dialup.

> Really? Is there a new Swen variant about the place? Would assume

No. Just an old one. After last October's tsunami, it's now down to
a trickle... I'll have to figure out which filter entry is is that's
blocking. Maybe if you can give me the exact error message you
received, then I can identify which of the 300+ entries might do
with some cleanup.

> the virus definitions in the e-mail gateway would know about all
> the old variants. I'm sure University Communications Services
> would be keen make sure the problem doesn't continue next week
> (if, indeed, anyone's realised that it's happening this week).

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