Dear all VSNET participants,
As you noticed, the VSNET stopped delivering e-mails on Oct. 20. This is because the Kyoto University Intergrated Network System (KUINS) detected that the VSNET server had tried to send too many e-mails in a short time and KUINS decided to disconnect the VSNET server from the internet. KUINS then requested that the VSNET administrators take action to ensure that it does not happen again and report it back to KUINS. The cause of the mass e-mailing by the VSNET server was one major provider's refusal to receive e-mail due to a large volume of incoming e-mail. We, the VSNET administrators then did some changed on the settings of the VSNET server and unsubscribed some e-mails of hotmail.com, outlook.com, live.com, gmail.com, icloud.com, yahoo.com, and mac.com from vsnet-mira* and vsnet-recent*. After reporting these actions to KUINS, the VSNET server was again connected to the internet on Oct. 31.
We hope you will continue to use VSNET as before, since the problem was only the internet connection of the VSNET server, and there was no problem on the server itself. As Kato-san mentioned other vsnet-alert e-mails, all the VSNET sub-lists are available at http://ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp . When you find a sub-list that looks interesting, please click the list name and see the link "more information about this list" and follow the instruction for controlling the subscription. Note that, when you subscribe to vsnet-mira and vsnet-recent, you should use an e-mail address that can receive over 2,000 e-mails per day.
We will send a notice to the addresses unsubscribed later.
With best regards, Daisaku Nogami on behalf of the VSNET administrators