🚀 go-pugleaf

Folks,

I know that network managers are often in the habit of working long
hours but in fact I had gone home about 30 minutes before your message
arrived at 18:52.  If the intent was to provide advance warning this
doesn't quite achieve it.  Longer advance notice would be appreciated.

I for one would be happy to install a procmail filter that would send
me an alpha page for such email messages if there were some predictable
strings I could count on occurring in the header.

Based on the last five messages from owner-outages@BC.net I think I
might have trouble doing this:
	
	From owner-outages@BC.net  Wed Apr 29 17:44:22 1998
	From owner-outages@BC.net  Wed Apr 29 20:54:57 1998
	From owner-outages@BC.net  Wed Apr 29 21:08:07 1998
	From owner-outages@BC.net  Thu May 14 14:48:06 1998
	From owner-outages@BC.net  Thu May 14 18:52:12 1998

looks promising, but the sender is not consistent and in fact
anyone can use this mailing list---even a non BCNet customer!

	From: Marilyn Hay <hay@ucs.ubc.ca>
	From: Marilyn Hay <hay@ucs.ubc.ca>
	From: Marilyn Hay <hay@ucs.ubc.ca>
	From: changeyourlife@cybernetfive.com
	From: "Don McWilliam (BCnet)" <Don.McWilliam@BC.net>

Lets try the "To:" field:

	To: outages-ubiquity@BC.net
	To: outages-ubiquity@BC.net
	To: outages@BC.net
	To: changeyourlife@cybernetfive.com
	To: "'outages@BC.net'" <outages@BC.net>

Interesting, why are the last two that went to outages formatted
differently?  I guess Don and Marilyn use different mail clients!

If all else fails, a particular subject string could be used:

	Subject: 98042902: Update BCnet Interruptions April 29/98
	Subject: 98042903: Ubiquity Problem Resolved
	Subject: 98042904: BCnet Interruption April 29/98
	Subject: Extra Income, NO SELLING! ...
	Subject: 980515:BC Interruption May 15/98

Close but certainly not as much consistency as I would like if I am
going to risk being awakened in the middle of the night by what might
end up being a SPAM email.

I hope you will close the use of the outages email lists to all but
members of those lists or perhaps even to only BCNet staff!  After all
why does anyone but BCNet staff need to have access to those lists?
Clearly at least one spammer knows about it and it is just a matter of
time if you do not make it a "moderated" list before lots of spammers
know about it.

Thanks,

Gerald Justice
Network and Unix Sytems Manager

E-mail: Gerald.Justice@hia.nrc.ca  Mail: Dominion Astrophysical Observatory 
                                         Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
Phone:  (250) 363-0055   PST             National Research Council (Canada) 
                                         5071 W. Saanich Road 
Fax:    (250) 363-0045                   Victoria, B.C.   CANADA  V8X 4M6