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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to
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? _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"