[Trombone-l] From Listowner - Trombone-l posting address

[John Burton]

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john burton
Bach 50B3 Bass Trombone
Kanawha Valley Community Band / Slide-by-Slide
South Charleston, West Virginia
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu 
> [mailto:trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu] On Behalf Of Danner, Mearl
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:48 PM
> To: trombone-l
> Subject: [Trombone-l] From Listowner - Trombone-l posting address
> 
> Due to the increase in SPAM directed at the server that 
> houses Trombone-L (bypassing our SPAM filter) it will shortly 
> be necessary to block direct email access to that server.
> 
> All posts after that time will need to be directed to 
> trombone-l at samford.edu
> 
> Posts to trombone-l at server5.samford, 
> trombone-l at maillists.samford.edu, 
> trombone-l at mailbox.samford.edu, etc. will be blocked.
> 
> Depending on your email provider you either will - or will 
> not - receive a message saying that the post failed to deliver.
> 
> If you have an address book entry you use to post you'll need 
> to update the entry to reflect the change if you are using an 
> address other than trombone-l at samford.edu.
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience but we are being swamped.
> 
> We receive on average 150,000 messages daily of which 95% are 
> either rejected out of hand or quarantined as SPAM. Since 
> midnight last night the server housing mailman has received 
> over 20,000 messages - of which only 200 or so are valid 
> posts to our mail lists.
> 
> Due to the change all messages into our campus will be 
> scanned. That means that some posts could be quarantined by 
> the spam filter. If you have a post that does not appear 
> contact me directly at jmdanner at samford.edu - BUT PLEASE give 
> it a couple of hours before you ask. Email is not a cell 
> phone or instant messenger. There are at times delays that 
> are inherent to the protocol.
> 
> Mearl
> 
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