[GreenKeys] greenkeys oddities

Richard Knoppow 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
Tue Dec 18 20:17:35 EST 2018


    FWIW, I am a co-administrator of a list. I forwarded a 
message this morning that I probably should not have. It was from 
a familiar person but not at his regular address. The message was 
a link to something. Should have killed it. I think its possible 
that we are going through another cycle of e-mail hacking.

On 12/18/2018 2:47 PM, Gil Smith wrote:
> Hey folks:
> 
> I have seen quite a few new sign-ups lately -- sometimes several 
> a day, which never happens on GK.  Since I can't really check 
> them anymore than seeing a normal-looking email address 
> (sometimes with call letters) and name, I allow them onto the list.
> 
> There is either a resurgence of interest in tty from new folks or 
> clever spammers are about to hit the list with crap (which I will 
> snuff as soon as that happens).
> 
> There have also been quite a few existing accounts suspended to 
> to bounces.  That means GK is unable to send to those addresses.  
> This seems unlikely given that there were a couple of dozen the 
> last few days.
> 
> If you do not get this post, let me know :)
> 
> I think that is some transient glitch in the GK delivery system 
> and I plan to give it another day or so to stabilize, and then I 
> will re-activate the bounce-suspended accounts and see what happens.
> 
> gil
> 
> 
> gil smith, AF7EZ
> greenkeys moderator
> gil at baudot.net <mailto:gil at baudot.net>
> 
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Richard Knoppow
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