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 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Shannon Ahern Ikeda > DevelopMentor WebMistress > http://www.develop.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > "Ubergeeks know the answer to everything is 42, that anger leads to the > dark side, and that there is only one ring to rule them all and in the > darkness bind them. > Are you an übergeek? Don't think you are. Know you are." > --www.thinkgeek.com >