Not addressing your exact question, but... Our dept took this
problem seriously enough that one of our staff met in a big pow-wow
with campus e-mail people, sorted out the issues, wrote up a very
nice explanation and then broadcast that to members of our own
dept. All very well and good for us, but what about the flood of
unsuspecting students now arriving on campus? Shouldn't they be
informed? Shouldn't someone contact the State News to cover this for
the benefit of the whole campus? Or, as suspected by some here,
would the State News, like so many "news" sources, just botch the
facts so badly that it would do more harm than good? I would contact
the State News myself, but for the reason cited above have been
advised to stand down.
-- dkm
At 8/27/2010 12:19 PM Friday, John Gorentz wrote:
>Today I had users report to me that even though they had never
>created a block list in the past, one has been spontaneously
>generated for them. This didn't happen to me, and I'm not sure I
>believe all the protestations of people who say they never, ever
>created one, but I believe some of them. Has anyone else noticed
>this? (I didn't help matters because I didn't read the technical
>note that's linked to on the web page, and so didn't warn our users
>about the problem discussed here. I figured the note on the web
>page was adequate notification. But it wasn't for those users who
>rarely touch webmail.)
>
>John Gorentz
>W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
>
>At 11:32 AM 8/20/2010, STeve Andre' wrote:
>>On Friday 20 August 2010 11:16:11 Leo Sell wrote:
>> > We are investigating further. At this point I can advise you all that
>> > there was no corruption of data during the migration and we are
>> > reviewing the data sources.
>> >
>> > ATS will issue further explanatory information when it becomes available.
>>
>>Um, Leo,
>>
>>it isn't corruption so much as a mess-up.
>>
>>I saw entries in my accept list that I did not add. Others have seen things
>>in their block list. At this point I think it is undeniable that something
>>bad happened. Not horridly bad, but bad enough.
>>
>>ATS needs to make some kind of announcement now.
>>
>>It isn't like I've not done things like this, myself. I once
>>switched several
>>thousands of users to a new version of a shell, except my script got the
>>logic wrong: users who wern't using that shell got the upgrade, and those
>>that needed it, didn't get it.... (oops)
>>
>>--STeve Andre'
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