From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 22:30:27 -0400 Dear colleagues and friends on the Liblicense-L list: In slightly over twenty years (!) with the Liblicense-l list, we've seen it all, but not quite like this. From Monday morning this week until today, this list-serving program used by our hosts at the Center for Research Libraries was getting 3-6 messages per minute from a probably Chinese spammer addressed to this list. That works out to something like 5,000 to 7,000 messages per day. The spammer was clever enough that it took a couple of days to stop the flood -- and in the meantime your moderator felt like the sorcerer's apprentice at the point when the music was getting really loud and busy! Things have calmed now, but we wanted to alert you in the event that you sent a message to the list since the beginning of the week, one that hasn't been posted. We don't think anything got lost, but something could have. And let me express huge thanks to colleagues at CRL, particularly the wizard of all technology there, Patricia Xia (plus Bing Hui & Moises Gamez) for their patience and assistance in getting through this. And, as always, our thanks to readers and posters for continuing to make these conversations stimulating, memorable, and useful. Ann Okerson Moderator, Liblicense-L