Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:42:49 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, spadge@fromley.net Subject: Re: Posting restrictions on this mailing list (for spam control)? Message-ID: <200611061442.kA6Egnci088099@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <454E19CC.7040208@fromley.net>
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Spadge <spadge@fromley.net> wrote: > Ross Finlayson wrote: > > Am I the only person who's tired of all of the spam on this mailing > > list? Why is this mailing list not set up so that only subscribers to > > the list can post to it? This has been standard mailing list procedure > > for several years now. > > Spam is annoying, for sure. But I think every now and then spamassassin, > or whatever system the board uses, dies, and on those days we get a > bunch of spam. Usually, though, it's fixed pretty quickly ... until the > next time. > > It's quite possible that, as the list members aren't moderated, the > sending bots actually sign up. I'm not sure about this, though. I've not > tested the list with an unsigned address, either, but it's quite > possible you do have to be a member to post. I'm not subsribed to any of the freebsd mailing lists, but I read many of them through an NNTP gateway. I can post to them, but some lists afre set up to require approval of mails by a moderator, so my mails are somewhat delayed, but that's not a big problem. I think -hackers, -current and -arch are the lists requiring approval. Best regards Oliver PS: Please reply to -chat (this is off-topic on -net). -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "[...] one observation we can make here is that Python makes an excellent pseudocoding language, with the wonderful attribute that it can actually be executed." -- Bruce Eckel
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