Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Now that we have released sarge, I would like to ask debian-admin and >the Project Leader to consider seriously doing something to reduce the >level of spam we have to receive, store, and filter in our @debian.org >addresses. I recomed usi

Bug#314559: ITP: libparse-debianchangelog-perl -- parse changelog files in standard Debian format

2005-06-16 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libparse-debianchangelog-perl Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : not yet * License : GPL Description : parse changelog

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Miles Bader
Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recomed using spamhaus SBL-XBL, or at least CBL (which is included in > SBL-XBL). Spamhaus's rather irresponsible behavior in the past[*] hasn't left a happy impression; have they cleaned up their act lately? [*] Extremely lax standards for listings,

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Nigel Jones
On 17/06/05, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > gkdial -- PPP dial-up configuration and dialing tool [#287992] > > * Orphaned 164 days ago > > * 1 RC bugs. > > Does any graphical ppp frontend exist that can be used instead of this? there is kppp (?) for KDE, and

Questions on how to handle this: [ftpmaster@debian.org: httperf_0.8-3_i386.changes REJECTED]

2005-06-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Below I have included the text rejecting my httperf package. I am taking over as maintainer and uploaded a new version that also closed a couple of bugs and moved it from non-US to main. If linking with libssl is not permissible, should the version that is currently in Sarge be slated for removal

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Wouter Verhelst: > What's painful about it? I wouldn't be surprised if it already increases load on lists.debian.org significantly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting umask globally

2005-06-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.17.0208 +0200]: > And unless they know about the completely non-standard /etc/umask.conf, > they'll still edit multiple files. True enough... unless files like /etc/profile include some magic code for umask (rather than the umask call itself

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:18:06PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > iceme -- A graphical menu editor for IceWM [#227054] > * Orphaned 520 days ago > * Package orphaned > 360 days ago. > > icepref -- Yet another configuration tool for IceWM [#227077] > * Orphaned 520 days ago > * Package

Re: setting umask globally

2005-06-16 Thread Christian Perrier
> Filing a bug against login... (shadow maintainer hat on) bugger...:-) I was reading this thread and just told to self : dude, this will end up in a BR against shadow/login:-) So, to summarize, the rationale here is : don't set umask in the default login.defs and leave this to shells and/o

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Christian Perrier
> day. Many of the false positives were from the same people, who could > have removed their CBL listing easily. (If they didn't fix the Hmmm, IIRC I was among these ones and the reasons was the CBL listing all dynamic and non dynamic addresses from Free, one of the 2-3 major ISPs for DSL in Fr

Re: setting umask globally

2005-06-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.17.0658 +0200]: > So, to summarize, the rationale here is : don't set umask in the > default login.defs and leave this to shells and/or pam_umask. > Right? Yes. > I have to keep some kind of explanation for the default login.defs > file,

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 07:41 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst: > > > What's painful about it? > > I wouldn't be surprised if it already increases load on > lists.debian.org significantly. > > Not nearly as much as people who teergrub us. We can _really_ feel them. Cheers, Pasc

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 10:45 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What's painful about it? > > > > It stops a lot of viruses and spam, with no false positives. What's the > > problem? > > "No false positives" seems a bit optimistic. > > One problem I've encou

Reduce the amount of spam for @debian.org (Was: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please)

2005-06-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Santiago Vila] > For example, we could use greylisting. Or we could reject messages that > are known to come directly from trojanized windows machines acting as > open proxies. Or even better, we could do both things. Or a completely different option. Here at the university the postmasters implem

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Ven 17 Juin 2005 01:42, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:09:47PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Le Jeu 16 Juin 2005 14:33, Santiago Vila a écrit : > > > Now that we have released sarge, I would like to ask debian-admin > > > and the Project Leader to consider seriously d

Re: Reduce the amount of spam for @debian.org (Was: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please)

2005-06-16 Thread Pascal Hakim
gmail.com used to do that to lists.debian.org. We deliver ~300,000 emails to gmail a day. It resulted in some deliveries timing out before they were even attempted; I'll let you imagine the rest. Cheers, Pasc On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 08:35 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Santiago Vila] > > Fo

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