From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 14:44:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F35E37B403 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:44:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:44:41 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: Corey Snow , Larry Rosenman Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:44:41 -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) Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Ruben de Groot References: <3D15D17C.26108.158E3FFA@localhost> In-reply-to: <1024865486.69414.26.camel@lerlaptop> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020623214441560.AAA732@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> 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 boldly uttered: > 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)? Oh, they're doing spam blocking already - rumor has it spam hits hub.freebsd.org about once a second. (of course, that server also serves various individual mail accounts as well, not just the lists) However, they are not: 1) blocking attachments 2) requiring membership to post 3) using DNS-based or other externally-ruled blocklists 4) keeping close tabs on the content and mitigating specific problems in a timely manner #1 is due basically to tradition and feeling that it helps new users #2 see #1 #3 could be for performance reasons, not sure #4 is probably due to lack of manpower, perhaps resistance to change Where us users could help out might be in item #4, or another idea might be to split up list functions onto a different box than the one that handles everything @freebsd.org, and implement different rules/policies on it. I might even have a server I could donate to the cause, and I'm probably within a 45 min drive of where the stuff is currently hosted. That is unless the "status quotians" (a new, -er I mean old lifeform) don't drown out the suggestion with the familiar "we don't need help, nothing's broken" response. > I've gotten more virii this weekend to the FreeBSD lists I subscribe to > than any other place. As have I. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message