Dear all,
some of you have already given comments about our "good friend Steve". I tried to find out his identity and tried to send him an *extremely* unfriendly message but - as was to be expected - a mail delivery failure occured saying:
steve_2000@iname.com: host mail-intake-1.iname.net[165.251.8.79] said: 553 steve_2000@iname.com... No such user
Our tc6 list is administrated by two people: by our computer network administrator and by myself. The administrator told me that he has already several times rejected spamming messages (there are many of them). Nevertheless we will now try to improve the system in a way that *really* only the list members are allowed to send mails (if the mail is longer than 40 K then it must be checked by one of the responsible people otherwise it goes through without any further check). In principle this should have been the way to do out since the time when the list was installed. Unfortunately and obviously there may be some leaks. We will try to do our best to find them and to erase them.
Best regards Otto