From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 6 14:42:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C696616A416 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:42:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF2B43D69 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:42:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (nwluzy@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kA6EgnSs088100; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:42:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id kA6Egnci088099; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:42:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:42:49 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200611061442.kA6Egnci088099@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, spadge@fromley.net In-Reply-To: <454E19CC.7040208@fromley.net> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-net User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:42:55 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: Posting restrictions on this mailing list (for spam control)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, spadge@fromley.net List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:42:59 -0000 Spadge wrote: > Ross Finlayson wrote: > > Am I the only person who's tired of all of the spam on this mailing > > list? Why is this mailing list not set up so that only subscribers to > > the list can post to it? This has been standard mailing list procedure > > for several years now. > > Spam is annoying, for sure. But I think every now and then spamassassin, > or whatever system the board uses, dies, and on those days we get a > bunch of spam. Usually, though, it's fixed pretty quickly ... until the > next time. > > It's quite possible that, as the list members aren't moderated, the > sending bots actually sign up. I'm not sure about this, though. I've not > tested the list with an unsigned address, either, but it's quite > possible you do have to be a member to post. I'm not subsribed to any of the freebsd mailing lists, but I read many of them through an NNTP gateway. I can post to them, but some lists afre set up to require approval of mails by a moderator, so my mails are somewhat delayed, but that's not a big problem. I think -hackers, -current and -arch are the lists requiring approval. Best regards Oliver PS: Please reply to -chat (this is off-topic on -net). -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "[...] one observation we can make here is that Python makes an excellent pseudocoding language, with the wonderful attribute that it can actually be executed." -- Bruce Eckel