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Subject:Re: Gerry is^h^h was down
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:38:48 -0800

Sorry Jim.  Thanks for the mouth-to-mouth...

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Jim Arnott <jr.arnott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> You guys never tell me anything!
>
> It looks like mail stopped flowing at about 0904 PST this morning.  A
> little nudge and it looks to be back up now.
>
> Sorry for the delay.  I was a bit distracted. My real job was cleaning
> up the mess that a spammer created with two hours access to my
> employer's mail server.  This is easy stuff. Cleaning up after 300,000
> spam messages go out from your domain takes a little longer.
>
> Moral of the story? Your ISP is NOT going to send you an email asking
> you for your username/password.  Your ISP already has it. The folks in
> Nigeria? They don't have it until you give it to them. Just say no.
>
> Jim Arnott
> List Administrator
> vanagon@gerry
>

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Jake

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