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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture I have been unsubscribed by a sister Jisc list by btinternet and there seems nothing one can do to get back on. Rosemary Hayes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frans van Liere" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 2:46 PM Subject: [M-R] Be careful when forwarding suspect links > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Dear members, > > Just around Christmas, I was automatically unsubscribed from the list, > because Calvin College's server marked e-mail sent from the list as > suspicious and bounced them. As a response, Jiscmail.ac.uk automatically > ejected me from the list. I have since re-subscribed, but I think it is in > everyone's interest to let you know what happened. Here is the report I > received from Calvin IT. Their administrator writes: > > "I've investigated the issue and found the cause. One of the threads of > emails to the list (subject of FEAST - A Saint for the Day (December 29) ) > had a link to a website soria.es, which is classified by our Spam Firewall > vendor as a "zero-hour malware site" - a classification that is used to > protect users from inadvertent malware downloads. Because this thread had > a number of responses (7 total messages), each including the original URL > of soria.es, there were a total of 7 messages that were classified as > malware/spam and rejected. This happened to be the threshold for the > listserv software to classify your email address as problematic and > auto-unsubscribe you." > > I don't know if anyone else encounteerd this problem, but I think it shows > we should be careful in automatically including messages when responding > to threads, and be watchful for potential security threats when responding > to messages. Who knows: Putin might be listening in to medieval religion! > > Happy New Year, > > > Frans van Liere > > Department of History > Calvin College > 1845 Knollcrest Circle, SE > Grand Rapids, MI, 49546 > > -----Original Message----- > From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious > culture [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Corine > Schleif > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 2:24 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [M-R] newly discovered library at risk > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Dear fellow members of the Medieval Religion List, > > The recently discovered women's monastic library at Altmünster is at > immanent risk. You can read about the situation and sign a petition at the > following sites. > > https://www.change.org/p/roman-catholic-archdiocese-munich-and-freising-newly-discovered-birgittine-manuscripts-at-risk-monastery-altom%C3%BCnster-germany > > > https://asu.academia.edu/CorineSchleif > > Corine Schleif > Professor, Art History > Arizona State University > > ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion