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Something like this seems to happen, and make the news, every couple years... Is it not possible to configure their email server to disallow emails with over X
by mfoy_ 10y ago
Something like this seems to happen, and make the news, every couple years...
Is it not possible to configure their email server to disallow emails with over X recipients from sending?
- gregmac 10y agoIt's probably a list, so the actual email has only one recipient. Something essentially expands this list to deliver a separate message to each individual recipient.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoI'm surprised that lists of certain sizes aren't locked down. I would expect the server to refuse to send to "all@nhs.gov.uk" unless the sender is on some sort of pre-approved list.
- mobiuscog 10y agoOne would really hope that such an address cannot be externally addressed ;)
- pavel_lishin 10y agoI look forward to another cleverly-named security flaw that allows someone to take down entire e-mail servers with a single externally-sent email.
- louthy 10y agoThe domain is nhs.uk ;)
- desus 10y agoThe domain is .nhs.net ;) Some individual trusts have @trust.nhs.uk addresses, most - probably two thirds use the .nhs.net system.
- delecti 10y agoMost email servers support that behavior, but it's a list-specific setting. Just because a list is large doesn't mean there's a point where you always want to restrict replies.
- frandroid 10y agoIf it was a list, the list owner would have disabled posting to it by now.
- desus 10y agoThat's exactly what they did do though. See http://support.nhs.net/servicestatus http://support.nhs.net/servicestatus by 09:45 they'd disabled the distribution list and updated their service status page. There were that many emails in the system that at 15:30 people were still receiving emails sent at 09:30.
- _ao789 10y agoSounds like a DL Group to me..