XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.space.tech, sci.military.moderated   
   XPost: sci.aeronautics.simulation, alt.war.nuclear.biological-ch   
   mical-radiological-moderated   
   From: gherbert@gw.retro.com   
      
   I posted the following to one related group yesterday,   
   and wanted to follow up to all the groups I moderate today.   
      
   Overnight my system received somewhat in excess of 300 megabytes   
   worth of this newest virus.  I say somewhat because I don't know   
   yet how bad it was; I am still trying to clear enough of it out   
   to get mail working properly again.   
      
   As far as I am aware no mail / group postings have been lost,   
   but it could be much much later today before anything starts   
   flowing in the newsgroups.  I am currently unable to process   
   incoming messages, though they are being delivered ok.   
      
   My appologies for this delay.  I am looking at connecting up   
   a spare 28 gig RAID array I have lying around to the system   
   which processes the newsgroup posts, or moving the replacement   
   system (which is here and has been being configured and tested   
   slowly for the last couple of months) into production sooner.   
   However, I need to fix things on the existing system and   
   configuration first, and that may take all day.   
      
   George William Herbert  wrote:   
   >Alain Fournier   wrote:   
   >>Scott Lowther wrote:   
   >>>Anybody else getting mail-bombed with hundreds of 150kilobyte virus or   
   >>>worm messages?   
   >>   
   >>Yes my junk mail filter is going nuts. About 100 junk mail in the last 2   
   >>or 3 hours.   
   >   
   >I'm getting better than one a minute right now.   
   >   
   >There may be delays in group message approvals for the   
   >groups I moderate... this is rightly a flood.   
      
      
   -george william herbert   
   gherbert@retro.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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