From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 13:56:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from valis.olywa.net (valis.olywa.net [216.173.192.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B0E37B400 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from intrepid.snowpoint.com ([216.173.213.173]) by valis.olywa.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-56662U5000L500S0V35) with ESMTP id net for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:56:10 -0700 Received: from ([216.173.213.172]) by intrepid.snowpoint.com (Merak 4.10.020) with SMTP id HUB36795; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:51:29 -0700 From: "Corey Snow" To: Larry Rosenman Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:56:17 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Spam problem on the list (Was: Re: URGENT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3D15D381.5846.1596237C@localhost> References: <3D15D17C.26108.158E3FFA@localhost> In-reply-to: <1024865486.69414.26.camel@lerlaptop> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) 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 23 Jun 2002, at 15:51, Larry Rosenman wrote: > 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 believe that the reason was mentioned in another email after the one you quoted- the hub.freebsd.org server is running at its capacity limit, and a hardware upgrade would be likely necessary to support virus scanning all the mail. That's understandable, so unless someone finds a way to provide additional hardware/money (and I can't at the moment) we need to look at other ways to accomplish our goal, which is to reduce the amount of spam/viruses to the list, or at least to limit the amount to a dull roar. :) > I've gotten more virii this weekend to the FreeBSD lists I subscribe to > than any other place. > Yeah, it was pretty ugly for a bit there. But it seems to be calmer now. I'm more interested in fixing the problem than the blame at this point. :) Regards, Corey Snow To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message