[LMB] ADMIN: bl**dy spammers

[PAT MATHEWS]

>From: Melanie Dymond Harper <mel at herald.co.uk>
>
>Hi folks,
>
>I had to do some cleaning up yesterday after some particularly
>enthusiastic spammers joe-jobbed one of our users (for those not
>familiar with the term, it's the practice of sending out spam appearing
>to come from your address or domain), and didn't spot that the resulting
>shortage of disk space had caused Mailman to pitch a hissy fit also.
>Thanks to Patrick V. for alerting me to the issue; you should get a
>bunch of stuff showing up in your mailboxes any moment.
>
>Cheers
>
>Mel
>

Thanks! I thought it was me because Yahoo Groups (Jonathan Swift had the 
right take on them!) sent me a note saying my messages had been making like 
a rubber ball. Scratched my head over how that could happen to a server in 
the uk as well!