Please do not subscribe me on Techdiver,
Thank you.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alan" <alan@ir*.co*>
To: "Charles Roth" <divr555@ho*.co*>; <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: Techdiver list


> At 4:12 AM -0500 12/11/02, Charles Roth wrote:
> >I don't post much but I do like to read what is posted here. Lately, 
> >I've not been getting posts from techdiver. I would resubscribe and 
> >it would tell me that I'm already listed, send me posts for a day or 
> >two and then no more posts.  Has anyone else been having this 
> >problem?
> >
> >Chuck R
> >
> 
> 
> According to the Aquanaut website:
> 
> Latest News
> 
> Aquanaut.COM Web Server Attacked
> 
> On November 1st, an intruder exploited a loophole in the web server 
> that supports this site. Amongst other things, they uploaded and ran 
> a program that infected the system and did significant damage to 
> files on the web server.
> 
> We have restored most of the system, but some files are on tapes that 
> had just been sent off-site. Only older, out-of-date copies remain 
> on-site. The TechDiver subscription list is one such file.
> 
> Members of this list should resubscribe, by sending email to 
> techdiver-request@aquanaut.com with the single word subscribe in the 
> text part of the message (i.e., not in the Subject). We will get 
> round to retrieving the tapes and restoring the missing files, but 
> this won't happen for a few days, by which time many folk will 
> probably have resubscribed anyway, making the point moot. Sorry.
> 
> We have manually resubscribed all folk who have posted to the list in 
> the last few months.
> 
> On November 5th, further suspicious entries in our system logs led us 
> to disable our listserver again. TechDiver was affected. Mail sent to 
> the list and the list server was unceremoniously bounced during the 
> day. The cause of the entries was eventually determined and isolated, 
> and the listserver has been re-enabeled. Apologies for the further 
> inconvenience.
> 
> 
> My guess is that either people aren't participating right now because 
> they don't realize the listserver is working again, or the listserver 
> is still having some problems. Either way, it might take a few weeks 
> for things to return to normal.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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