Subscribers to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security daily e-mail bulletin were inundated with dozens of e-mails on Wednesday due to a glitch with the mailing list. The gaffe started after one man, Alex Greene, a manager at GKN Freight Services Inc., sent a reply to the Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report, a round-up of security-related news reports, to change his subscription information.

The e-mail server sent Greene’s reply to everyone on the DHS’s subscriber list, which sent off a torrent of responses from recipients — some humorous, some irritable — which in turn were fired out again to all subscribers, according to the SANS Institute, a computer security monitoring organization. The cause of the problem was likely an erroneous change in the e-mail server’s settings. PC World - U.S. Gov’t E-mail Server Turns Into Spam Cannon

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