Odd msg received from list

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/14/2013 9:26 AM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 14/11/2013 13:53, Verde Denim wrote:
>> I got an odd message this morning from the list telling me that my
>> account was de-activated due to excessive bounces. I've only sent a
>> handful of messages to this board, but do read an awful lot of the posts
>> in order to learn more about the language. The message also listed my
>> account password, which I found odd. Has anyone else received a message
>> like this?
>>
>
> I can confirm that your account has been suspended because bounces. That
> is: as a moderator, I can view your record in the interface and see that
> it has been tagged as such. I can't tell you any more, I'm afraid; I've
> just emailed the other list owners to see if someone has a handle on why
> this has happened to a number of @gmail.com users today.

It has since been discovered and announced elsewhere on this list that 
the problem was a post 'from' unknown.org which google rejected.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy