C++-sig problems ?

[Jacek Generowicz]

Wolfgang <wl at flexis.de> writes:

> > Has anyone else experienced problems in submitting articles to the
> > C++-sig?
>
> Yes, I subscribed to C++ sig today, but until now received no
> confirmation message.
> 
> > I've tried both via Gmane, and directly via mail, without success.
>
> I read it on Gmame but since 19.08 there are no new messages.
> I think the main mailing list server is down or something
> is broken. (not with gmame, other mailinglist run without problems)

A couple of people have privately replied to me that the likely cause
of this is something called "sobig.f", which seems to be heavily
disrupting things all over the place.

I assume that this is one of the spate of "clients" of Microsoft Virus
Gateway, which have become active recently. Being completely detached
from the MS world, I have remained, mostly, blissfully unaware of
these things.