Email storm to dioxin-l posters

[asagady@sojourn.com]

Here is the Alliance for Environmental Technology's/Bivings Woodall, Inc.'s
explanation for the  "junk email storm" sent to many posters on  dioxin-l .....

Any comments from any of the systems people out there???

I know I received many "junk"  copies of email that others posted to
dioxin-l even
though nothing in the mail header of those particular messages  indicated
that I was involved
in that email transaction.  As a result, something at   "listadmin@bivwood.com"
was holding my address and sending me all of the 120+ pieces of mail.

I did verify that   info@aet.org    is subscribed to dioxin-l.   They have also 
apparently shut down their website citing "technical problems."
                                


>To: asagady@sojourn.com
>From: Greg Vincent <gpv@bivwood.com>
>Subject: Misdirected Mail
>Message-ID: <3321EF2F40@bw50.bivwood.com>
>X-UIDL: d40d1b14e2ff2eee3978cac060bff9f2
>
>I am sorry about the misdirected mail you received last night.  When I
>talked to you, I thought the bulk forwarding was an administrative error.
>As you can see from our client list, we manage a website for the Alliance
>for Environmental Technology (AET); mail sent to info@aet.org is routed to
>our office for appropriate distribution.  Having reconstructed the traffic,
>I now believe that the AET mailbox got overloaded by a random dump from
>another site. We suspect the nonexistent address, website@ibm.net, is
>responsible.  I can promise that neither we nor AET have anything to do with
>this address, as I mentioned to you last night.
> 
>As a result of the overload, the mail server apparently automatically
>bounced all mail (including the unsolicited porno spam from ibm.net) back to
>everyone who had sent messages to info@aet.org within the last two weeks.
>
>The AET site is designed for public access, so we have no control over what
>comes into info@aet.org.  As soon as I spotted the problem, I shut down the
>outgoing mail -- unfortunately not in time to prevent some users from
>getting a lot of junk.
>
>Since info@aet.org is subscribed to dioxin-l, recent posters to this
>listserv would have been included in the inadvertent "spam"; AET has already
>sent an apology to listproc@essential.org.  As you probably know, sendmail
>configuration can be sheer hell, and this sort of problem can happen to the
>best of us.  I would really appreciate it if you could pass on to dioxin-l
>that this was an honest mistake.
>
>Once again, my apologies.  If it's any consolation, this has probably caused
>me more heartburn than anyone else.
>
>Greg Vincent
>
>
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