Re: Debian reliability growth

2003-05-02 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 07:11:27PM +0100, Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 07:46:08AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Debian stable is like a Cisco machine. You install/purchase it, you > > configure it, you put it into a corner and forget about it (in case > > for Debian except

Re: Debian reliability growth

2003-05-02 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 07:46:08AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Debian stable is like a Cisco machine. You install/purchase it, you > configure it, you put it into a corner and forget about it (in case > for Debian except for security updates). You don't have to maintain > it too actively and c

Re: spam sent to debian.org addresses

2003-05-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >A lot of legitimate mail can be trivially blocked this way, as well, which >> >is why it doesn't make sense to drop it on the server side. >> No. Using SBL definitely does not block "a lot" of legitimate mail. >in some cases it does. using SPEWS for example would lead

Re: spam sent to debian.org addresses

2003-05-02 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 2 May 2003, Robert Lemmen wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:27:42PM +, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > >A lot of legitimate mail can be trivially blocked this way, as well, which > > >is why it doesn't make sense to drop it on the server side. > > No. Using SBL definitely does not block "a lo

Re: Debian reliability growth

2003-05-02 Thread Bob Hilliard
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: . . . > If you install a Debian stable system, you are (more or less) > guaranteed the system doesn't change its behaviour during its > lifetime, except for security updates, corrections for severe problems > and license vi

Re: spam sent to debian.org addresses

2003-05-02 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:27:42PM +, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >A lot of legitimate mail can be trivially blocked this way, as well, which > >is why it doesn't make sense to drop it on the server side. > No. Using SBL definitely does not block "a lot" of legitimate mail. in some cases it does. us

Re: Debian reliability growth

2003-05-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Remi Perrot wrote: > I want, with this mail, to start a campaign on improving Debian > reliability. > > Policy on improving stable release are, in my humble opinion, too > restrictive and don't give the opportunity to improve Debian quality out > of security fix. I think that as release cycle is v