Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 23:33:44 +0000 From: MQ <antinvidia@gmail.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Posting restrictions on this mailing list (for spam control)? Message-ID: <be0088ce0611061533l15f6d6c6n6e72cd97cc89c1d8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061106195524.P39454@fledge.watson.org> References: <f06240809c173c5c9c1ac@66.80.62.44> <454E19CC.7040208@fromley.net> <20061106195524.P39454@fledge.watson.org>
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2006/11/6, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>: > > > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, 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. > > Once in a while, the spam filtering on FreeBSD.org keels over and the > level of > spam briefly increases until it's fixed. Over the weekend, the > FreeBSD.org > hardware was relocated to a rolling rack in preparation for it to be moved > to > a different colo, since Yahoo! is vacating the current colo it's sitting > in. > Disruption of this type often results in a window where spamassassin isn't > processing in-bound mail, so it bypasses spam filtering; I expect this is > probably what happened with respect to a bump in the spam rate in the last > day > or two. > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to The mailing list denied all the mail from my previous mail box provided by Netease(NASDAQ: NTES) from China mainland, even I subscribed to -net, and asked me to wait the moderator's approval. But after I changed my mailbox to gmail, the filter never returned such message. I don't know why I can't post to -net even I subscribed to it. Maybe a misconfiguration?
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