Scott,
Your owner sent the exact same message to many lists at once. Listserv
interprets this as spam, and interpreted your owner as a spammer. It's
possible that the virus sent the messages, or maybe she was doing this
on purpose. Either way, unless you have the latest version of Listserv,
14.3, there's nothing you can do but wait for 48 hours for her
banishment to clear. The work-around is to have her use an alias to
send the message; of course, you may have to add this alias as an owner
or editor if needed.
Melissa Kenny
IIS Administrator
Harvard Medical School IT
-----Original Message-----
From: LISTSERV list owners' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Scott Elder
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 2:15 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Error message: The LISTSERV network has determined that you
have been posting anabnormallyhigh amount of identical messages
A list owner on our system received the message below. She cannot
post
messages to Listserv. The user had not been "served out". I suspect
that her system is infected with a virus, but once that is fixed, I need
to find out how to allow her to post again. Can someone please help me
with that?
Thanks,
Scott Elder
Subject: Message ("The LISTSERV network has determined that you
have...")
The LISTSERV network has determined that you have been posting an
abnormally
high amount of identical messages to multiple LISTSERV mailing
lists. To
ward against a possible spamming attempt, your posting privileges are
being
withdrawn for the next 48 hours, worldwide. While you will still be
able to
post to the mailing lists, your messages will be forwarded to the
list
owners for verification before they are distributed.
A "spam" is an advertisement or other unsolicited material sent to
large
numbers of mailing lists with no consideration for whether or not
the
material is appropriate for the lists it is being sent to. A single
"spam"
can result in the delivery of millions of unwanted e-mail
messages
worldwide, costing the victims and service providers a total of
several
hundred thousand dollars. The cost to the spammer is usually under
five
dollars. To be effective, a counter-measure must neutralize the spam
within
the first five minutes. Consequently, there is no time for all the
LISTSERV
servers to compare notes with each other before acting, and some
legitimate
postings may be intercepted erroneously. Please accept our apologies if
this
is what happened to you.
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