I currently have no profile at the forums anyway :) Btw fyi: I keep getting this error from my provider - "This email has failed its domain's authentication requirements. It may be spoofed or improperly forwarded!"
Thanks for the heads up. gl -------- Original Message -------- On February 8, 2018 6:35 AM, Ralph Ronnquist <ralph.ronnqu...@gmail.com> wrote: >It seems dev1galaxy.org is suffering a DNS issue at the moment; it'll > hopefully sorted out in a few hours, but until then the forum may be > unreachable. > > Ralph. > > ghostlands wrote on 08/02/18 15:37: >>I don't really do IRC, mainly because most development channels are on >>Freenode - Freenode famously blocks Tor unilaterally. You pretty much cannot >>get on Freenode via Tor without some proxy gymnastics. Freenode blocks a lot >>of other proxies as well, so even that is a significant hurdle. I'm not sure >>how it handles VPNs but I don't have any of those they couldn't help in my >>case anyway. >>I was just hoping an admin could set me up an account and afterwards I could >>change the password! Lol. I don't need anyone to re-code the spam blocking >>implementation. >>Honestly it seems like a decent interim solution to just suggest that Tor >>users must contact an admin to set up an account. I personally don't mind the >>extra step at all. >>Thanks to everyone for discussing this though. >>gl >> >>-------- Original Message -------- >> On February 3, 2018 10:55 PM, goli...@dyne.org wrote: >>>On 2018-02-03 16:32, Adam Borowski wrote: >>>>On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 12:38:49PM -0600, goli...@dyne.org wrote: >>>>>On 2018-02-03 11:18, taii...@gmx.com wrote: >>>>>>On 02/03/2018 07:14 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >>>>>>>..some people HAVE to use Tor, because their lives depends on it. >>>>>>> ..and, we need a backup plan whenever Tor fails. >>>>>>> Again a life and death issue. >>>>>>> And there should not ever be a debate as to if someone "needs" it. >>>>>>> Asking a few simple questions about the distro would be an effective >>>>>>> spam filter without discrimination. >>>>>>> Our spam setup has blocked about 29700 spammers in the last year and >>>>>>> not one >>>>>>> spammer has gotten through. Only about a dozen folks have had >>>>>>> problems >>>>>>> registering. So our system is effective and not going anywhere. We >>>>>>> also >>>>>>> have questions BTW and before we upgraded our line of defense, >>>>>>> spammers were >>>>>>> still getting through. >>>>>>> Including "please ask on IRC for registration" in the error message >>>>>>> sounds >>>>>>> like a good alternative for those who for whatever reason believe they >>>>>>> need >>>>>>> to use Tor (be their fear warranted or not, it's not our duty to >>>>>>> judge). >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>Great minds! We just now decided to send them to freenode IRC #d1g-users >>> in that automated message. I'm hoping to see 'ghostlands' pop up there >>> soon. >>>>An automated exception system takes hours to code, and, as you just >>>> mentioned, was not 100% effective. A human, on the other hand, has >>>> natural >>>> detection of all bulk abuse attempts, and will let through at most an >>>> individual abuser, who could have easily registered anyway. >>>>Ralph is a wizard at cobbling anti-spam stuff together. It has, with a >>> few exceptions, been trouble-free and 100% effective. I may be wrong but >>> iirc the setup didn't take that long to put in place. (golinux sends >>> some virtual ice cream to Ralph.) >>>golinux >>>Dng mailing list >>>Dng@lists.dyne.org >>>https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >>> >>Dng mailing list >>Dng@lists.dyne.org >>https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >> >Dng mailing list >Dng@lists.dyne.org >https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
