[ARRL-OK] RE: ARRL.net address

Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:32:23 -0700

The volume of spam that came through the ARRL reflector was intolerable. 
Spammers (may they rot in eternal torment) downloaded the FCC data base and 
simply appended @arrl.net to every call.

While there are some very sophisticated spam filters (the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration uses some) they are expensive and I'm sure 
most ARRL members would balk at suffering an added charge for using the 
reflector service.

So, I am *delighted* with this news!

Kim Elmore, N5OP

At 11:02 AM 4/27/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, if you had been getting the volume of spam through your ARRL address
>that I was getting before I turned it off, this is VERY good news.  Maybe
>now I can start using it again.
>
>Mark Schneider - K5MAR
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "D C Macdonald" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
><[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:26 AM
>Subject: [ARRL-OK] RE: ARRL.net address
>
>
>Looks to me like a good reason to   NOT
>use the ARRL's mail forwarding.
>
>Mac, K2GKK/5
>
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: [email protected]
>To: [email protected],
>[email protected],[email protected]
>Subject: [OCAPA] ARRL.net address
>Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 02:06:14 EDT
>
>I just found out that the ARRL.net  will reject any e-mail that has more
>than
>one address in it.
>
>I received the following  from the folks at QSL.net:
>
><<As suspected and now confirmed by a tech (thanks to Dick Flanagan for the
>contact help) at ARRL, they are refusing any mail that has more than 1
>recipient on it.  They did not confirm or deny that they would implement any
>other
>spam controls.
>
>What this means is if we want to continue sending mail to subscribers with
>ARRL addresses, we have to send individual messages to everyone (which we
>are
>doing now).  We were sending a messages with 30 addresses on each one which
>meant mail went out much faster.
>
>So far we seem to be able to deliver messages in a timely fashion but during
>peak periods, users may see delays, and since this version of Mailman works
>on
>the LIFO (last in first out) method, some mail can be delayed until the peak
>traffic drops off.>>
>
>Clay WA6LBU
>
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                           Kim Elmore, Ph.D.
                        University of Oklahoma
         Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
"All of weather is divided into three parts: Yes, No, and Maybe. The
greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled.