From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Mar 4 12:37:29 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA9B9DA49E for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 12:37:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from uk1mail2513.mymailbank.co.uk (UK1MAIL2513-PERMANET.IE.mymailbank.co.uk [217.69.47.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3D8260 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 12:37:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (UnknownHost [88.151.27.41]) by uk1mail2513-d.mymailbank.co.uk with SMTP; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 12:37:03 +0000 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.86 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1aboye-000Hxh-T9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:37:04 +0000 Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 12:37:04 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Span in the lists Message-Id: <20160304123704.a2cb95e20bd4ce5b0825bac9@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.3 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:37:29 -0000 On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 06:09:59 -0500 Carmel wrote: > On Fri, 04 Mar 2016 14:21:15 +0700, Olivier Nicole stated: > > > Fernando, > > > > > What happened in the last few hours regarding the lists? I received > > > _a lot of spam_ from freebsd-ports@ freebsd-questions@ and other > > > lists. > > > > Per choice, the lists are open, it means you can post without being a > > member, it alo means spammers have kind of free access. > > This is all because some asshole feels it an inconvenience to have to > register for the list. I did an experiment a year or so ago to see No. This is all because those who run the FreeBSD mailing lists decided not to require registration for reasons they (and I) feel are good and sufficient. This is not likely to change. Very little spam gets through, but whenever there's a little spray of it we get this. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith