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From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:53:07 +0000
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fans is back
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On 24 Dec 2010, at 3:52 pm, Russ Cox wrote:

> 9fans.net was rejecting mail for the past week,
> due to an incomplete system upgrade attempted
> by someone who broke into the ancient Linux VM
> that ran the list.  Even script kiddies can't get shared
> libraries right, it appears.
>
> I was away for the past week and unable to
> look into the problem until today.  I have reinstalled
> the VM and restored the list configuration from
> backups.

Cheers Russ, it's good to have it back.

So someone broke in to attempt an upgrade? ... Oh, I suppose there
was a time I would have done it too.

>
> Apologies for the interruption.
> Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
>
> Russ
>