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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