I can't say about your situation or the organization of your list, but
the list I manage is gated to a newsgroup.  Every so often there will be a
flood of old messages.  A check of the mail headers will show they came
from the newsgroup.  I've assumed that an old news file was activated or
restored or something.  --joe  



On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Shannon Ahern Ikeda wrote:

> Last night our most prominent public list (and at least one of Microsoft's,
> and I've heard rumours of a couple more) started spitting out posts from a
> few weeks ago as if they were new mail.
> 
> Here is one of the (many) messages I received today from our techincal
> staff:
> 
> 
> >I'm getting hundreds of old posts reposted to me from the DOTNET list. It
> >wouldn't be so bad if the ATL list from microsoft wasn't sending out
> >hundreds of duplicates as well! Is there a problem with the listserv
> >software (or have we been hacked - along with Microsoft)?
> 
> 
> I was hoping to see some discussion about this here, but it seems perhaps
> it is limited to only a few lists.
> 
> Wondering if anyone has thoughts about this? Does it matter that we are a
> primarily Win2K facility (and presumably Micrsoft is as well...  :-)  ).
> 
> Any thoughts/suggestions would be most welcome. If there is a way for me to
> prevent this from happening again, I'd like to. If there is a patch or if
> it's potentially Win2K-related, I'd like to hear about that, as well.
> 
> Much obliged,
> 
> Shannon
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