From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 6 23:33:46 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 A3E0216A4C8 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 23:33:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antinvidia@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA8A043D58 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 23:33:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from antinvidia@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so891658uge for ; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:33:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=namkUyF9vknoeVJWKgKuQYpPkfoTtqiz0xgycLsG7O8S6cWPiPrL74Ij0v3kx3bQu15SqkZJfg/6Ijg5zBYIqUEC7IF/hR+BjcfY6PM5wswZKJ/hP5ZV64/rIHYhf0WQQTN47zn9VEVMzD8lGEGTtCWJdniXxidRzWnPqF2Y//8= Received: by 10.78.203.13 with SMTP id a13mr7438405hug.1162856024125; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:33:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.167.2 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:33:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 23:33:44 +0000 From: MQ To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20061106195524.P39454@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <454E19CC.7040208@fromley.net> <20061106195524.P39454@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 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 23:33:46 -0000 2006/11/6, Robert Watson : > > > 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?