From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 14: 2:25 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 4F41537B404 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lerlaptop.lerctr.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5NL1ujh072554; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:01:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Subject: Re: Spam problem on the list (Was: Re: URGENT) From: Larry Rosenman To: Corey Snow Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3D15D381.5846.1596237C@localhost> References: <3D15D17C.26108.158E3FFA@localhost> <3D15D381.5846.1596237C@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 23 Jun 2002 16:01:56 -0500 Message-Id: <1024866117.69414.29.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 15:56, Corey Snow wrote: > 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. :) Where is the current hardware configuration posted, and what does the community expect it would take to implement the appropriate protection? I can donate something, and might be able to get others as well. I use FreeBSD *A LOT* and recommend it to my consulting/contract clients. > > > 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. :) I agree. It's not a biggie, I have the virus scanning on my inbound mail server. -- 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