Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:48:45AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.28.0755 +0200]: >>> If you want secure email, encrypt it. Don't depend on the transport. >> And the envelope? > I really doubt that you have set up your mail server so t

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 02:53:21AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday June 19 2005 2:31 am, Simon Huggins wrote: > > > You can see on your "blacklist backlash" that JaNET, the UK's > > academic network is listed as respecting the DUL. Blacklisting via > > the DUL is a positive measure when co

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.28.0755 +0200]: > > If you want secure email, encrypt it. Don't depend on the transport. > > And the envelope? I really doubt that you have set up your mail server so that your provider couldn't *trivially* launch a man-in-the-middle att

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-27 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:31:26PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 03:30:56PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> Plus, it gives my provider an easier path into snooping my >> mail. With direct-MX delivery, there is a least a chance that the >> SMTP session will be TLS-encry

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 03:30:56PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > Plus, it gives my provider an easier path into snooping my mail. With > direct-MX delivery, there is a least a chance that the SMTP session > will be TLS-encrypted. My provider would have to mount an _active_ > attack (vs passive

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-26 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:40:19PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1153 +0200]: >> DULs are considered stupid, you might as well just deny mail from >> 0.0.0.0/0. > I disagree. These days, any moron and their father can set up a mail > serv

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread MJ Ray
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:44:21AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > I don't quite agree with Branden's page that it is entirely > > the blocker's fault - there's some blame with his ISP, or maybe > > his ISP's relations with abuse.net and friends. > > I don't

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:22:33PM -0500, Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader wrote: > Again, for those who are reading in a hurry: > As of 10 May 2005, when I find myself blacklisted when sending mail as > [EMAIL PROTECTED], I fall back to a host that is not blacklisted. Great news. Th

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:44:21AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > I don't quite agree with Branden's page that it is entirely > the blocker's fault - there's some blame with his ISP, or maybe > his ISP's relations with abuse.net and friends. I don't understand how you are inferring an assignment of blame

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:55:58PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As DPL he is the public face of the project and should make extra effort to > > contact people when doing so would benefit the project. > > Sure, but many of these people don't put telephone numbe

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:31:28AM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > I originally sent this mail to: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > i.e. Leader and Project SCUD

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread MJ Ray
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As DPL he is the public face of the project and should make extra effort to > contact people when doing so would benefit the project. Sure, but many of these people don't put telephone numbers on their emails. Some put a web address and then you can work o

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:46:34AM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > You missed: > > > I received an interview request from Andy Channelle of the UK > > > publication Linux Format, but unfortunately was unable to get my > > > response to him because he's `blocking my mail`_. A freelancer for > > > the

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:40:29PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Adam McKenna] > > It is fine for individual developers to act like antisocial fuckwits. > > Sure. Just carry on the way you are. :) > > > It is not acceptable for our DPL to behave that way (not when acting > > in his role a

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Adam McKenna] > It is fine for individual developers to act like antisocial fuckwits. Sure. Just carry on the way you are. :) > It is not acceptable for our DPL to behave that way (not when acting > in his role as DPL, anyway). Good thing he isn't behaving like that. He is not the one rejecti

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Sven Mueller
Manoj Srivastava wrote on 22/06/2005 07:07: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:35:31 +0200, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >>On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:35:50PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: >> >>>1) The Internet is peer-to-peer. You want to break that? >>> >>>2) Some of the ISPs I've used refuse t

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Adam McKenna
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:03:15AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > I don't see him trying to fix anything. Rather, I see him not wasting > time on trying to fix brainlessly broken crap but instead just > ignoring it and carrying on. It is fine for individual developers to act like antisocial fuckw

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:42:30AM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:30:14PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I'd like to think Branden would fix his mail setup for leader@ (or > > best get his ISP to remove his IP from the DUL or provide one which > > isn't on that list) in o

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:30:14PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > I'd like to think Branden would fix his mail setup for leader@ (or > best get his ISP to remove his IP from the DUL or provide one which > isn't on that list) in order to help the Debian project's image and > not just been seen as bit

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:07:34AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > No. The DPL, hopefully, jas better ways to spend his time, and > more critical tasks to perform, than to jump through hoops to please > people who just drop mail without paying any attention to content. Note that this mi

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.22.1642 +0200]: > > how is whinging a valid option? it won't even achieve anything > > (aside from making you look like a whinging loser) > > http://ursine.ca/Craig_Sanders Or yourself. Wow. Are we going passive aggressive now? Things like h

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:10:54AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:02:26 +0100, Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Sure, not with his maintainer hat on, not with his personal hat on, > > but when you're in a role and posting from a role address I believe > > that o

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday June 22 2005 12:19 am, Craig Sanders wrote: > > You wrongly assume it isn't a valid option when for many people > > it's the only option. Deal. > > how is whinging a valid option? it won't even achieve anything > (aside from making you look like a whinging loser) http://ursine.ca/Cra

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:44:00PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday June 21 2005 9:12 pm, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 05:04:32AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Why pay someone else to do what I can do myself for free? > > > > because you can't do it yourself for free -

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday June 21 2005 9:12 pm, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 05:04:32AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sunday June 19 2005 3:55 am, martin f krafft wrote: > > > also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1242 +0200]: > > > > > And if your argument here is that t

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:30:31AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I am sick and tired of hearing this argument. > > Guess how many choices I have for broadband where I live. > > The answer: ONE. you also have access to any of the hundreds of email service providers on the net, with secure access m

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:05:27AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:12:55 +1000, Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > note that there is no third option of whinging about how your rights > > are being infringed because your dynamic-IP mail is being > > blocked. you

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:37:14AM -0400, Blu Corater wrote: > I reject at SMTP time any mail to which I can't answer, with a polite > 550 message explaining that the server is blocking legitimate mail > arbitrarily. it's your server, it is your right to use whatever arbitrarily stupid blocking r

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:35:31 +0200, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:35:50PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: >> 1) The Internet is peer-to-peer. You want to break that? >> >> 2) Some of the ISPs I've used refuse to relay my messages when they >> claim to be from my d

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:02:26 +0100, Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Sure, not with his maintainer hat on, not with his personal hat on, > but when you're in a role and posting from a role address I believe > that occasional jumping through hoops may be required. I don't. Peopl

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:12:55 +1000, Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > note that there is no third option of whinging about how your rights > are being infringed because your dynamic-IP mail is being > blocked. you do not have ANY right to demand that your mail must be > accepted by anyone

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Blu Corater
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 02:12:55PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 05:04:32AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sunday June 19 2005 3:55 am, martin f krafft wrote: > > > also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1242 +0200]: > > > > > And if your argument here i

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Craig Sanders
do not have ANY right to demand that your mail must be accepted by anyone. nobody has that right. craig ps: as for branden's mail policies - IMO, if he can't email someone because they block him, he is under no obligation to lose any sleep over it. -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:57:53PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Marino Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, I support Branden's general approach, but think it would be > > better to include some more active announcement. I think it's > > unreasonable to demand post-holders work to accommoda

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-20 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Garrett writes: > I have no objection to Branden *as Branden* refusing to deal with users > who drop mail. However, I think Branden as DPL ought to deal with reality > rather than trying to fix everything that's broken with the world. His > job there is to benefit Debian, not to reduce gene

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
Marino Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I support Branden's general approach, but think it would be > better to include some more active announcement. I think it's > unreasonable to demand post-holders work to accommodate daft > mailserver configurations. I have no objection to Branden *as Br

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Simon Huggins wrote: > Our elected leader, when faced with a problem that he knows will > stop his mail being delivered to certain recipients, should IMHO > work around it in order to fulfill his role. Sure, it would be nice if the DPL would, but it would also be nice if the D

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.20.0252 +0200]: > I'd be impressed if your ISP can rewrite the Received: header > produced by the hop after them to change the IP address of their > SMTP server into your IP address. That's really not difficult, and it's being done. Remember:

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 06:32:49PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1544 +0200]: > > > For what it's worth: how do you know they don't intercept the > > > mail that your mail spool then sends out? > > > > Eventually you get a bounce with the

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread MJ Ray
Simon Huggins wrote: > I've not had any form of reply though and feel this is a problem the > project needs to address if the leader is going to continue to send mail > =66rom a blacklisted host and not care about doing so. Blocking based solely on blacklists (instead of using them as one part in

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 03:49:04PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Blacklisting based on dial-up or dynamic status is nothing more than > an effort to turn the internet into an oligarchy, where only the rich > and powerful can control mail. It's a power grab. That's all it does > and all it's inten

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 04:35:31PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:35:50PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: > > 1) The Internet is peer-to-peer. You want to break that? > > 2) Some of the ISPs I've used refuse to relay my messages when they > > claim to be from my dropbear address

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday June 19 2005 9:32 am, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1544 +0200]: > > So punish them specifically. There are blackholes that do that. > > bl.spamcop.net, sbl.spamhaus.org, xbl.spamhaus.org and > > bl.ursine.ca all do that. > > And then t

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1544 +0200]: > So punish them specifically. There are blackholes that do that. > bl.spamcop.net, sbl.spamhaus.org, xbl.spamhaus.org and bl.ursine.ca > all do that. And then they just hang up and dial in again to get a new IP. > You need

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:40:19PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I disagree. These days, any moron and their father can set up a mail > server with proper queuing. That does not mean they can protect it > against relaying. I se *no* (read that again: NO) reason why anyone > should run a mail spoo

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:31:28AM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > Blacklisting via the DUL is a > positive measure when coupled with virus scanning smarthosts as it > reduces the number of virus mails spread by clients like Outlook. So is dropping all incoming mail. Virtually ANYTHING reduces the

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:35:50PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: > 1) The Internet is peer-to-peer. You want to break that? > > 2) Some of the ISPs I've used refuse to relay my messages when they > claim to be from my dropbear address instead of the ISPs domain. > > 3) If I can't afford DSL or cable,

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday June 19 2005 6:22 am, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1404 +0200]: > > Why pay someone else to do what I can do myself for free? > > The problem is not you, the problem are the other morons who think > like you *and* can't operate mail ser

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1404 +0200]: > Why pay someone else to do what I can do myself for free? The problem is not you, the problem are the other morons who think like you *and* can't operate mail servers. With that I mean: I have no reason to believe that you ca

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Sam Couter
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I se *no* (read that again: NO) reason why anyone > should run a mail spool on a dial-up. 1) The Internet is peer-to-peer. You want to break that? 2) Some of the ISPs I've used refuse to relay my messages when they claim to be from my dropbear address

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-06-2005 12:40, martin f krafft wrote: > These days, any moron and their father can set up a mail > server with proper queuing. That does not mean they can protect it > against relaying. And because some (alot) can do it wrong, noone should be al

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Paul, * Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-19 14:06]: > On Sunday June 19 2005 3:55 am, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1242 +0200]: > > > > And if your argument here is that their provider's mail spool > > > > sucks, delays or drops

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday June 19 2005 3:55 am, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1242 +0200]: > > > And if your argument here is that their provider's mail spool > > > sucks, delays or drops mail, or whatever, well... switch your > > > goddamn provider then. > > > >

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1242 +0200]: > > And if your argument here is that their provider's mail spool > > sucks, delays or drops mail, or whatever, well... switch your > > goddamn provider then. > > Can't. Monopoly. Get yourself a separate mail provider then. gm

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday June 19 2005 3:40 am, martin f krafft wrote: > And if your argument here is > that their provider's mail spool sucks, delays or drops mail, or > whatever, well... switch your goddamn provider then. Can't. Monopoly. -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.19.1153 +0200]: > Y'all do realize that greylisting takes care of those about 9 out > of 10 times, and the overhead to do virus scanning is minimal on > what does keep retrying long enough to get greylisted, right? > DULs are considered stupid,

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 02:53:21AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday June 19 2005 2:31 am, Simon Huggins wrote: > > You can see on your "blacklist backlash" that JaNET, the UK's > > academic network is listed as respecting the DUL. Blacklisting via > > the DUL is a positive measure when coupl

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday June 19 2005 2:31 am, Simon Huggins wrote: > You can see on your "blacklist backlash" that JaNET, the UK's > academic network is listed as respecting the DUL. Blacklisting via > the DUL is a positive measure when coupled with virus scanning > smarthosts as it reduces the number of virus

Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi all, I originally sent this mail to: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] i.e. Leader and Project SCUD I've not had any form of reply though and feel this is a