2006/11/6, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Spadge 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.

Once in a while, the spam filtering on FreeBSD.org keels over and the
level of
spam briefly increases until it's fixed.  Over the weekend, the
FreeBSD.org
hardware was relocated to a rolling rack in preparation for it to be moved
to
a different colo, since Yahoo! is vacating the current colo it's sitting
in.
Disruption of this type often results in a window where spamassassin isn't
processing in-bound mail, so it bypasses spam filtering; I expect this is
probably what happened with respect to a bump in the spam rate in the last
day
or two.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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The  mailing list denied all the mail from my previous mail box provided by
Netease(NASDAQ: NTES) from China mainland, even I subscribed to -net, and
asked me to wait the moderator's approval. But after I changed my mailbox to
gmail, the filter never returned such message. I don't know why I can't post
to -net even I subscribed to it. Maybe a misconfiguration?
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