Hi all,
As you may or may not have heard, the University of Lethbridge's mailing lists have been under what seems to have been intended as a sustain DoS attack (actually its not clear what the point of the attack was other than to be annoying): tens of subscription requests a minute from a limited number of addresses to all publicly available pages. The result is that list administrators have been overwhelmed by noise from their subscription pages (I just trashed 2k requests from the last few days).
Lost in that noise have almost certainly been some real requests. Indeed, when I just checked now (the DoS seems to have calmed down), the majority of requests looked legitimate: real email addresses and real names that seemed to match the email addresses in the names boxes.
If you know somebody who tried to join dm-l in the last two months, or if you recommended to somebody that they join dm-l in that time, could you check with them to see if they were ignored or rejected (you get an email when you are subscribed). And if they were, ask them to try resubscribing?
The URL is here: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
Because it isn't 100% clear that the problem has stopped (our IT department is supposed to be working on installing a captcha to prevent automatic signups but hasn't done it yet), they should bother me personally if they can't get on this time.
Thanks and apologies for this inconvenience.
-dan