From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 3 20:39:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD65737B41E for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 20:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B104381473; Sat, 4 May 2002 13:09:07 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 13:09:07 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone been "postfixed"? Message-ID: <20020504130907.J24071@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <018f01c1f31c$2c3ccae0$4dec910c@daleco> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <018f01c1f31c$2c3ccae0$4dec910c@daleco> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 3 May 2002 at 22:31:25 -0500, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > I've been lurking (and occasionally posting) > on -questions, -stable, and -security for > some time now. I doubt I'm much help > to the user community, but I try. I like > FreeBSD's community environment and > appreciate the fact that I can make a > little $$$ with it as well. > > As regards the FreeBSD community-at-large, > there were some "rugged" personalities on > -questions, methinks, who have seemed to > "drop" their habit of posting. > > So a question has been rolling through the vast > empty spaces in my mind for some weeks now: > > Whatever happened to the arguably-potentially--infamous > posters to the "FreeBSD as a desktop" megathreadfire > on -questions some months ago? > > Methinks perhaps whoever runs Postfix on > mx2.freebsd.org could answer this ;-) ???? Hmm. It took me several reads of this to decipher it. I think what you're saying is: There were a lot of flamers on -questions a while back, and now they're gone. Did this happen because of discrete (or otherwise) use of Postfix? If that's the question, I'm pretty sure the answer is no. If it has happened, it would have been without the consent or knowledge of the core team. We have on occasion blocked people, but it's been a long time since the last time. In general, we've found that blocking obnoxious posters doesn't work. Last time we tried it, the person in question just changed his email address and started spamming us in earnest. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message