[gentoo-user] OT - "Not getting gentoo-user at espersunited.com" OR "Has anybody seen the owner recently?"

[Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@yahoo.com>]

According to my Sent folder in evolution, I sent my
last message to gentoo-user on Sunday, February 12. 
In that message I asked a question about procmail.  I
also added as a postscript that I hadn't gotten
anything from gentoo-user in a couple of days.  On
Monday (when I still hadn't gotten anything from
gentoo-user) I sent an email from msulli1355@yahoo.com
(this account) to gentoo-user+owner@gentoo.org about
this problem.  This problem of not getting the
messages at my domain has happened three or four times
before, usually because of a disruption of the cable
Internet (which I no longer have to mess with now that
I have DSL.)  The gentoo-user+owner usually gets back
to me in a couple of days or so, but it's been almost
a week now and I haven't heard back from anyone.  I
read in the archives (once I realized that I wasn't
getting gentoo-user; that the list was not simply
down) that the reason I wasn't getting gentoo-user
might be a procmail problem.  procmail has been
unmerged and all reference to it has been removed from
sendmail.cf (by way of altering sendmail.mc and m4'ing
it to sendmail.cf and restarting the server). 
gentoo-user is the only mailing list I'm subscribed to
and not getting, and as I've said, the owner has not
contacted me at this address.  Has anyone seen her, or
anyone who might be covering her responsibilities
while she is out?  She usually asks me for a
traceroute from my server to lists.gentoo.org; here it
is for you all:

bullet ~ # traceroute lists.gentoo.org
traceroute to lists.gentoo.org (140.105.134.102), 30
hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  10.20.30.40 (10.20.30.40)  12.381 ms  11.656 ms 
12.688 ms
 2  dist1-vlan50.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net (69.152.80.66) 
11.736 ms  12.455 ms  12.431 ms
 3  bb1-g5-0-0.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net (69.152.80.242) 
12.005 ms  12.486 ms  11.673 ms
 4  bb2.p15-0.dllstx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.42.214) 
20.152 ms  27.777 ms  20.066 ms
 5  ex2-p12-0.eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.42.19) 
20.322 ms  20.889 ms  20.557 ms
 6  asn3549-gblx.eqdltx.sbcglobal.net
(151.164.248.238)  19.844 ms  20.118 ms  20.905 ms
 7  Dante-Milan-3.so-5-0-0.ar2.LIN1.gblx.net
(67.17.210.158)  148.443 ms  148.452 ms  147.647 ms
 8  rt1-mi1-rt-mi2.mi2.garr.net (193.206.134.190) 
150.250 ms  150.216 ms  149.910 ms
 9  ts-mi2-g.garr.net (193.206.134.202)  161.795 ms 
161.296 ms  161.261 ms
10  units-rc.ts.garr.net (193.206.132.26)  163.971 ms 
163.849 ms  163.545 ms
11  infis-gw.ts.infn.it (140.105.7.230)  164.211 ms 
163.671 ms  163.124 ms
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I've had a rough time the past couple of weeks.  I'm
subscribed to The_Linux_Corner@yahoogroups.com and
there was a whole string of offensive messages
claiming to come from me sent to that list.  I was
afraid that someone had cracked my system (even though
the log files showed no evidence of it.)  Working
together with someone at The_Linux_Corner I was able
to see that the messages weren't coming from
espersunited.com at all, but instead from an IP
address in India (We had to look at the
X-OriginatingIP header to realize this.)  The guy I
was working with said that it was probably a
virus-infected Windows computer and that someone with
an account on that computer had my email address in
their address book.  I've been getting Undeliverable
Mail messages from everyone and they're dog (Oklahoma
phrase) even though those messages weren't actually
coming from my account.  I can't do anything about
someone else's computer - especially someone I don't
even know.  I just hope that virus claiming to be me
is not why the gentoo-user+owner hasn't contacted me. 
Can anyone help me get my michael@espersunited.com
subscription back?  I sent an email from
michael@espersunited.com to
gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org about fifteen minutes
before I started typing this message, and I haven't
gotten a Confirmation Request or anything else from
gentoo.org yet...
-Michael Sullivan-


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