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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> !! Please Read!! Oracle-L subscriptions, spam and viruses
As all of you are quite aware, the past couple months have seen a huge
influx of spam and viruses on the internet. This has had a huge impact
on mail servers worldwide.
I recently read of one university that was spending quite a bit of money to install new mail servers, all due to the increased computing power to deal with the spam and viruses - their current servers are operating at capacity and can't keep up.
This has affected everyone - corporations, universities, ISP's, anyone that processes email has been having trouble.
As you may or may not know, when you send an email, it is relayed through a number of mail servers to get to its final destination. I'm not an email expert, so don't ask me detailed questions about how that takes place.
Now imagine what happens if an email from oracle-l must go through
an overloaded server to get to you. The overloaded server may
just decide it doesn't care too much if you get mail from oracle-l that
day or not, and bounce the email back to fatcity.com. When that happens
a few times, the ListGuru mailing list software will automatically
unsubscribe
you.
When that happens, it will *not* send you a notice for obvious reasons.
So, if you mysteriously stop getting oracle-l email for some reason,
there's
an easy recourse: just resubscribe.
Here's how to subscribe:
http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util/maillist/maillist.html
Thanks,
Jared
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Author:
INET: Jared.Still_at_radisys.com
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