The MPLS WG Archive

[Loa Andersson <loa@pi.se>]

Eric and WG,

George, me and Alex - have agreed to initiate the process of
moving the list.

We have had a list admin, Eric Rosen, that has done a wonderful
maintaining the list. Eric has indicated that he wants to step
down as list admin. We are not happy about this , but we understand
that 7 seven years maintaining one of the most active IETF
list might be enough.

Thanks Eric!

However we've asked Eric to stay as list admin over the period
of transfer.

In the mean time we would like to see volunteers to take over as
list admins, initially working together with Eric, but taking over
the responsibility as soon after the transfer as possible.

Are you interested, please get in contact we George and me.

/Loa

Eric Gray wrote:

> George/Loa,
> 
> 	I agree with Andy. The only mailing list that comes close -
> interestingly enough - is IPSec.  I strongly suspect that many MPLS 
> list members have not spoken up on this score simply because nobody 
> else has until now.  I have been mostly surprised at the unusual 
> (and possibly unhealthy) restraint shown in that respect.
> 
> --
> Eric
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-mpls@UU.NET [mailto:owner-mpls@UU.NET] On Behalf Of Andrew
> 
> G. Malis
> 
>>Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 7:29 AM
>>To: George Swallow; Loa Andersson
>>Cc: MPLS wg
>>Subject: Administrivia: virus-based email attack on the mpls list
>>
>>George and Loa,
>>
>>You may have noticed that the mpls list is undergoing a virus-based
> 
> email
> 
>>attack, using forged from: addresses (see
>>
> 
> http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_MYD
> OOM.A
> 
>>for details on this particular virus), and using attachments in an
> 
> attempt
> 
>>to spread itself.  This is by far the worse list I'm on for failing to
>>filter out the virus-generated email.  I note that you have both been
>>victims of this virus in terms of having your email addresses forged,
> 
> as
> 
>>have I, Alex, and many others.  I would like to ask you to consider
> 
> some
> 
>>remedies:
>>
>>- Move the email list from uu.net to ietf.org.  The other IETF lists
> 
> that
> 
>>I'm on don't have this problem, and they also seem to have pretty good
> 
> spam
> 
>>filtering.  This is probably the easiest fix to the problem.
>>
>>- If you would rather keep the list at uu.net, ask the admins there to
>>filter out any messages with attachments (there's no reason to send
>>attachments to an IETF WG email list), and also to bounce incoming
> 
> messages
> 
>>from senders not on the list (I've noticed that many of the forged
> 
> from:
> 
>>addresses are from obsolete addresses).
>>
>>Thanks!  This has really gone past the level of just being an
> 
> annoyance.
> 
>>Cheers,
>>Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 

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