Email bomb in progress...

[John Barresi]

Those of you have been reading the GWTW Forum thread know that we got hit with an email bomb of over 200,000 per hour sometime yesterday morning, and it took our site off line for part of the day.

Here's the latest update...

We're still getting over 200 emails per hour (down from 100,000), from dozens of servers and hundreds of IP addresses... Probably some punk kid with a two bit Trojan script and nothing better to do.

My server provider is being very considerate, has spent some time in chat with me, and has left the our site on line... While personally monitoring and deleting the email as it comes in (along with my own legitimate emails).

We're going to ride it out for a day or three, and then if it does not subside we'll have to turn off the name servers with my domain registrar which will leave nothing for the bomb to hit for a few days... If we end up having to do this, all of the Kitelife site, email and mailing list will be off line until we switch it back.

We're looking to avoid this, and will be on line for at least 1-2 more days.

I will of course be posting in here immediately if we do have to shut down temporarily.

Thanks again for all of your support and patience!

In the event of site outage, you can reach me here - kitelife(at)hotmail(dot)com

[John Barresi]

Here's the latest:

The email bomb apparently started with a virus spread to various external computers, and at some point it picked up the kitelife.com domain out of someone's address book... The incoming emails have trickled down to 20 per hour, and may continue or renew until the virus is removed from all infected computers on the world wide web.

We're still going to ride this out for a few more days and hope to see it subside very soon... Keep your fingers crossed, and hope that the virus does not open up again somewhere and begin this all over again.

For the time being, you should feel free to reach me using either kitelife(at)hotmail(dot)com or my personal email barresij(at)comcast(dot)net until these issues are resolved.

We are welcoming article submissions for issue 39 of Kitelife until November 20th, and will be releasing the new issue on December 1st.

[John Barresi]

AAAARGH!

Kitelife email is shut down indefinitely... The email bomb has been non-stop for 3-4 weeks now, and all @kitelife.com addresses have been shut down until further notice.

For the interim, anyone can reach me here - webmaster(at)kitelife.org

[jimmcp]

John,

Hey, it's only been 12 days. It just FEELS like 3-4 weeks!

I work in IT, I feel your pain!

Best of luck getting this worked out.

Jim

[John Barresi]

Only 12 days?

Boy, it does seem WAY longer.