[Imc-web] Email and imsahp Tue Aug 22 10:42 CDT reboot

[Mike Lehman]

Hi Dan,
I ended up with messages on a few lists that were more than a week old.

What may be part of the problem is that I've found that many of the 
lists I'm on have had sporadic admining lately. For the lists that I get 
admin notices for, I try to keep regularly cleared out. I know that many 
of the lists I have admin access to, but am not listed as an admin, have 
ended up with very extensive backlogs consisting mainly of spam.

It may just be the August slump for admins, but I have to say that after 
a year when the lists I admin have seen steadily building amounts of 
spam getting stuck in moderation, maybe many of those admining other 
imsahp lists have started to simply ignore the lists and let the 
backlogs grow. It is disocuraging to log in, after ignoring all those 
notices, and find hundreds of spams to dump. Maybe that's part of the 
issue, but since I'm mostly clueless when it comes to such network 
stuff, maybe I'm just throwing out a red herring and all the crap stuck 
in moderation has no effect on things, except psychologically for those 
who are listed as admins.

In any case, the spam has steadily become more of an issue in terms of 
the time I spend dealing with it. If drastic measures are needed to get 
things under control, then I'm in support of doing what we gotta do to 
take the server back from the byte-criminals.
Mike Lehman

Daniel Lewart wrote:
> UCIMC Tech and Web,
>
> This morning I found that despite relatively low load averages, email
> delays were intolerable, so I rebooted imsahp at Tue Aug 22 10:42 CDT.
>
> Some old email has been dribbling though, but there is still a
> considerable backlog.  I had noticed a sudden increase in 50K-70K spam
> to my moderated lists recently.
>
> I'm worried that spam is killing imsahp.  Here are two solutions:
>   1) Put a spam/virus filtering machine in front of imsahp
>   2) Discard anything greater than a particular size (e.g. 20K)
> Obviously, there are others.
>
> Good luck!
> Dan
> lewart at ucimc.org
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