From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Apr 5 12:23:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mk-smarthost-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-smarthost-2.mail.uk.worldonline.com [212.74.112.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F14A37B404 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 12:23:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [80.225.5.11] (helo=lineone.net) by mk-smarthost-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16taEL-000B1Z-00; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 21:22:41 +0100 Message-ID: <3CAE079A.E06E32CA@lineone.net> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 21:22:50 +0100 From: Jean-Mark Dupoux X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: newbies@freebsd.org Cc: irado Subject: Re: hub.freebsd.org spam policy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I cant help agreeing that something has gone a little wrong with the filtering - i've definitely had one or two problems myself. A particular thing which surprised me was that I couldnt post from any online mail services any more - If I wanted to sign into my regular email on the web from work for example, then my posts got bounced. I tried with 3 different services, Yahoo and 2 regular dial-up service providers which (like most in the UK) have web-based email facilities as well as POP3 email, and all my messages got rejected consistantly. Now I cant say this for sure, but my guess would have been that webmail makes a poor platform to attempt to spam from in comparison to a "normal" email account as you usually only have access to basic composition and addressing tools. Most webmail sites also now have virus scanning built-in, so isnt this one case at least where the filtering could use some refinement ? blocking out every web-based email service which the system seems to do means people can only post from their home boxes Jean-Mark Dupoux jmdupoux@lineone.net On 5 Apr 2002, at 0:41, irado wrote: > > If the spam filtering that the lists implement are not to > your > > liking, perhaps you can volunteer to help maintain better > ones? > > Filtering is not a perfect science. It isn't even close. > > 251A 4B18 > > considering your 'almost polite' reply, I must thanks to > [put name here] that we are very far apart, and that it was > not a weapon. ;-) > > peace. > > BTW, I have no enough skills to make as suggested by you. > Maybe can you?? ;-) > > > greetings, > irado furioso com tudo > Linux User 179402 > > there are more crimes under religions than under atheism. > _____________________________________________________________________ > // free anonymous email || forums \\ subZINE || anonymous browsing > subDIMENSION -- http://www.subdimension.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message