From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 13:51:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lerlaptop.lerctr.org (lerlaptop.lerctr.org [207.158.72.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD61737B400 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lerlaptop.lerctr.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5NKpQjh072471; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:51:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Subject: Re: Spam problem on the list (Was: Re: URGENT) From: Larry Rosenman To: Corey Snow Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, pjklist@ekahuna.com, Ruben de Groot In-Reply-To: <3D15D17C.26108.158E3FFA@localhost> References: <3D15D17C.26108.158E3FFA@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 23 Jun 2002 15:51:26 -0500 Message-Id: <1024865486.69414.26.camel@lerlaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 15:47, Corey Snow wrote: > On 23 Jun 2002, at 5:25, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > > > > In the ultimate irony (or perhaps more accurately, in the ultimate > > obviousness), the message that immediately followed Ruben's in the > > last digest, and which took up fully 70% of the entire digest, was > > yet another spam, complete with a nice big file attachment. > > > > I have to voice my agreement with the "lock it down or lock it out" > mentality. I think it's great that the FreeBSD lists are open for > posting by anyone, but my opinion is that for such a service to exist > (and don't get me wrong, I think it's a great service, and indicative > of the level the FreeBSD community is willing to go to to support > their platfrom) it must be balanced with some more granular > administration. [snip] The technology to virus scan and SPAM scan exists, and runs on FreeBSD. My question is why isn't it deployed on the hub.freebsd.org server(s)? I've gotten more virii this weekend to the FreeBSD lists I subscribe to than any other place. -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message