[WinPartners] Update on WinPartners move to Mailman & outside posting temporarily disabled

[Kerem B Limon]

Good afternoon--

In order to deal with the onslaught of SPAM originating from worm-infected 
machines all over, we finally made the move over to Mailman for the 
WinPartners mailing list yesterday, something that has now been long overdue.

With the new Mailman configuration, members of the list can post to it 
unfettered. Normally, we'd like to keep the list open to outside posters 
via moderation, so as to both control the flow of unsolicited e-mail and 
let potentially useful postings coming from non-members reach the 
subscribers. However, we have temporarily disabled postings from 
non-members until at least the worst of this worm/SPAM hailstorm is over. 
There is enough spurious traffic being generated such that attempting to 
moderate it has become unreasonably demanding and has in fact doubled the 
associated mail our administrators have been receiving. Until further 
notice, postings to the list from non-members will be rejected.

If you have colleagues at MIT who'd like to mail the list, but for some 
reason cannot/do not want to join, please feel free to proxy on their 
behalf, or contact one of us administrators at winpartners-owner at mit.edu.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation while we work out these bugs, 
especially through these difficult times. We hope that Mailman will help 
meet many of the needs we've had for some time.

We will be sure to keep you posted of further developments.

Regards,
Kerem, on behalf of WinPartners list administrators (winpartners-owner at mit.edu)

Kerem B. Limon
Project Team Leader
Delivery Process, MIT Information Systems
kerem.limon at mit.edu /e-mail
+1-617-253-1150 /voice
+1-617-258-8736 /fax 
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