[185516] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG list attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mehmet Akcin)
Mon Oct 26 19:56:56 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20151026220055.GG24841@22.rev.meerval.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:40:56 -0700
From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>
To: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Larry Blunk <ljb@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Thank you team
On Monday, October 26, 2015, Job Snijders <job@instituut.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 03:17:37PM -0400, Larry Blunk wrote:
> > Just wanted to apologize for the attack over the weekend. The
> > posts came from a email address that was subscribed to the list, so
> > it was not subjected to moderation. While a filter was added
> > to block further posts (which were made in a short time window),
> > there were existing message queues that were not cleared in a
> > timely basis.
> >
> > As Job Snijders (a fellow Communications Committee member) noted
> > in an earlier post, we will be implementing some additional protection
> > mechanisms to prevent this style of incident from happening again. We
> > will be more aggressively moderating posts from addresses who have
> > not posted recently, in addition to other filtering mechanisms.
>
> To add to that: several people reached out off-list, offering help and
> recommendations. We'll be following those up in the next few days. Thank
> you for your support!
>
> Some people found the admins@nanog.org <javascript:;> readership
> unresponsive, but I
> assure you this is not the case under normal circumstances. The admins
> mail distribution was clogged up for the same reasons as the main list.
> We'll work on improving our reachability.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job
>
