I imagine it does, because the only way Thomas and I could figure out how to resolve the inbound flood is to direct any mail for repec.org to a black hole. But as he noted, moving the repec.org MX target from my server to his caused hundreds of megabytes of logfile entries to appear in an hour. No machine is going to behave reliably with that kind of load. My server last weekend was at times 50% consumed by nslookupd, checking the reverse DNS addresses on all those junk messages. Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata: http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html On Apr 9, 2008, at 11:13 , Christian Zimmermann wrote:

Does this also affect authors@repec.org?

Christian Zimmermann FIGUGEGL! Department of Economics University of Connecticut 341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063 Storrs, CT 06269-1063 http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/ christian.zimmermann@uconn.edu http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Kit Baum wrote:

...

Thomas and I have been trying to resolve these problems. We are essentially subjected to a denial-of-service attack in which hundreds of messages, at times, are being sent to somesillyname@repec.org per minute. On Thomas' suggestion this morning I changed the MX record from my server (which is virtual repec.org) to raneb.openlib.org, but that merely resulted in a flood of messages going to raneb. We are presently setting up an address

repec@mail.repec.org

which is now working properly (via snefru). We need to announce this via the blog and the RePEc homepage. I will also send a broadcast message to maintainers who have not yet set up their archives (as I do every month) notifying them of the new address.

Kit

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