Re: [Ips] New IPS list administrivia

["Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@openss7.org>]

Black_David,

Thank you for your diligence.

--brian

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Black_David@emc.com wrote:

> Sorry for the intrusion of administrivia; with luck this will
> be the only message I need to send on this topic ...
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> As part of transferring the IPS mailing list to IETF, new mailing
> list passwords were assigned to everyone - your password is
> needed to unsubscribe from the list, and to change options (e.g.,
> digests vs. individual messages).  To get your password, go
> to: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ips , enter your
> email address in the bottom box at the bottom of the page (in
> the Ips Subscribers section), click the "Edit Options" button
> and then click the "Email My Password To Me" button on the next
> page.  The IETF email list manager will automatically send monthly
> reminders of list passwords to everyone, so if you don't have
> anything that needs to be done now, you don't need to do anything.
>=20
> There are about ten email addresses transferred from the CMU
> list that have bounced all messages sent to them.  IF you have
> one of these addresses, AND you have found this message (e.g.,
> in the list archive), AND your address is now accepting email,
> AND you'd like to receive IPS list email again, THEN follow the
> above instructions to get your password which will enable
> you to turn off the "Disable mail delivery" option (further
> down the same page as the "Email My Password To Me" button).
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> At least one list member has a spam filter that demands a response
> from a human when email from an unknown address arrives.  The
> postmaster for that member has been sent a note asking the postmaster
> to ask the member to update his/her whitelist to allow email through.
> While it's a courtesy to do so, those who post to this list
> should not feel obligated to respond to clueless spam filters.
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> Speaking of clueless spam filters, at least one company has
> its email firewall configured to reject Internet-Draft announcements
> (the firewall appears to be configured to reject the MIME
> type used by those announcements).  The postmaster for the
> company involved has been sent a note that their email firewall
> is being overly aggressive.  If you're not getting Internet-Draft
> announcements (there was one sent to the IPS list this afternoon,
> just before 3pm Eastern time), you might want to check with
> your postmaster about this.
>=20
> Thanks,
> --David
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