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Re: Excessive .autodel files
Francoise Becker <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:07:12 -0400
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Hi. We're looking into this. Is there anyone seeing these odd autodel
files who is NOT running on Unix? If so, on what OS are you seeing
this happening?

Francoise


On 15 Jun 2004 at 14:30, UB Listserv Administrator <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Paul Russell wrote:
>
> > Why would LISTSERV create .autodel files for non-existent lists?
> >
> > --
> > Paul Russell
> > Senior Systems Administrator
> > OIT Messaging Services Team
> > University of Notre Dame
> >
>
> I would also like to know this, as I periodically have to delete autodel files
> for lists that don't exist, although nowhere near as many as 77,000, but I
> see things like:
>
> !.autodel
> $randomnumber$.autodel
> $randomword$.autodel
> *.hotmail.com.autodel
> 0.autodel
> 我想应征业务代表回条.autodel
> 香港英美公司协会.autodel
> 新婚计划之健康紧急充电.autodel
>
> With spam seemingly to be an ever increasing problem, listserv should have
> some mechaninsm to be able to clean up itself from things like this.
>
> -Jim
>
> --
> Jim Serwinowski                 [log in to unmask]
> UB Listserv Administrator       http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu

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