Moderator note - things...

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi All,

Early this week we were having trouble sending messages and you may have 
been getting mail bouncing too.  It was an ISP in the list's server chain 
reconfiguring their stuff to prevent spammers breaking into their 
system.  A noble cause :-))  The problems should all be fixed now and 
everything seems to be working fine now.  Thanks to all who reported 
problems!  Sorry if I didn't write back, but we were busy trying to track 
it down ;-))


I am still getting notes from AOL users wondering why they have not gotten 
list posts in the last month :-((  This time, it really IS AOL.  See the 
note at:
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/AOLproblems.txt
Sorry, nothing Chip or I can do to fix AOL's agressive and missguided spam 
filters...  About 80 people on the list "did" use AOL...  MSN and YAHOO 
have free mail accounts you can get if needed.  Many many complaints to AOL 
seem to go nowhere other than getting many more free months of AOL.........


I have started to store the list's digests in the directory at:
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/!DIGEST2003/
In case you ever want to go back and see something.  The last six months of 
posts, along with older ones, are in zip files at:
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Archives/


Hot-streamer was down today as I added 512Meg of RAM, replaced a bad floppy 
drive, and blew 50 pounds of dust out of it  :%)  It should all be back up 
and working now.


The old list control account (twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net) is now dead and is 
replaced by this one (teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net).  Golly, I sure am going to miss 
all that spam and viruses ;-)))


Attachments sent here or to the list are going to be automatically 
destroyed.  Best way to protect against viruses...  If you need to post 
something and cannot find a place on the web, offer to e-mail it to those 
interested or send it to the hot-streamer-dot-com temp directory 
(terry-at-hot-streamer-dot-com).  As always, if you see any files attachments that 
appear to be from the Tesla list, they ARE viruses.  We NEVER send out 
attachments or anything but plain ASCII text messages.


A number of people have been seeing viruses that appear to be sent by 
"Windigo-at-gte-dot-net".  It is actually apparently coming from WorldCom possibly 
out of Beaverton Oregon.  Seems like a dialup account...  We are trying to 
track the specific individual down.   I have friends in Beaverton and I fly 
there once in awhile too  >:o))  "Windigo-at-gte-dot-net" is totally innocent 
since they are just faking that person's name. Here is the typical full 
header info...
========================
Return-Path: <Windigo-at-gte-dot-net>
Delivered-To: twftesla-at-mail-dnvr.uswest-dot-net
Received: (qmail 91507 invoked by uid 0); 2 Jan 2003 20:59:04 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO mail7.uswest-dot-net) (63.226.138.7)
   by mpls-mailin-01.inet.qwest-dot-net with SMTP; 2 Jan 2003 20:59:04 -0000
Received: (qmail 61602 invoked by uid 0); 2 Jan 2003 20:53:06 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO out007.verizon-dot-net) (206.46.170.107)
   by mail7.uswest-dot-net with SMTP; 2 Jan 2003 20:53:06 -0000
Received: from Dnjvrb ([67.225.114.27]) by out007.verizon-dot-net
           (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with SMTP
           id <20030102205830.IQML2549.out007.verizon-dot-net-at-Dnjvrb>
           for <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:58:30 -0600
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:59:03 -0600
Message-Id: <20030102205830.IQML2549.out007.verizon-dot-net-at-Dnjvrb>
From: "mod1" <mod1-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
To: twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net
Subject: So cool a flash,enjoy it
MIME-Version: 1.0
Status:  U
X-UIDL: 1041541144.91522.128367.mpls-mailin-01.inet.qwest-dot-net
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
         boundary=GeWXN513Q8vOi7skv175Ra79
Content-Type: text/html;
Virus attachment (Use.exe) deleted
===========================


I have totally reconfigured the mail handling here and Chip is adding 
servers and playing there too.  I don't think "we" have broken anything but 
let us know if...


For general Tesla list FAQs see:
http://members.cox-dot-net/cajuncoiler/Docs/TeslaList.pdf
the list's main site is at:
www.pupman-dot-com


So looks like we are all ready to go for a new year!!!


Cheers,

         Terry