Re: Inappropriate messages being sent to mailing list recipients

In response to the dramatic upsurge of spam being sent to the wormbase and 
wormbase-help mailing lists, I have activated a number of features designed 
to filter out spam:

	- all non-western character sets are now forbidden
	- the internet relay blacklist is now consulted to block known
		open relays
	- the Razor distributed anti-spam network is now being consulted

If anyone notices legitimate e-mail being blocked, please let me know 
imediately.

Lincoln Stein

On Friday 23 May 2003 10:31 am, Rick Roy wrote:
> To whom it may concern-
>
> I signed up for the "wormbase" and "wormbase-announce" mailing lists
> two days ago and I almost immediately began receiving
> unrelated/undesirable e-mails (in Chinese, I think) from your servers.
> Are you aware of this? Has it been happening for very long? I have been
> reporting these e-mails to SpamCop but I would prefer not to have to
> deal with them in the first place. Can your hosting service
> (cogentco.com) do something to stop this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rick Roy

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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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