Lowell Gilbert wrote:
"Thomas Mueller" writes:
Why only the freebsd-ports mailing list and no others?
Other FreeBSD mailing lists get spam, and I thought freebsd-questions was
the biggest target for spam.
Why? 1) lack of volunteers with sufficent mailman and/or spam-filtering
experience, 2) l
On Monday, December 11, 2017 9:17 AM, Lowell Gilbert stated:
> "Thomas Mueller" writes:
>
> > Why only the freebsd-ports mailing list and no others?
> >
> > Other FreeBSD mailing lists get spam, and I thought freebsd-questions was
> the biggest target for spam.
>
> A fair number of FreeBSD lists
"Thomas Mueller" writes:
> Why only the freebsd-ports mailing list and no others?
>
> Other FreeBSD mailing lists get spam, and I thought freebsd-questions was the
> biggest target for spam.
A fair number of FreeBSD lists *are* subscriber-only already.
However -questions isn't one of them, be
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 1:59 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > The po...@freebsd.org (aka freebsd-ports@) mailing list now requires
> you to
> > subscribe to the list before posting. This brings us two important
> benefits:
>
> > * This should cut back tremendously on spam coming through the list.
>
> The po...@freebsd.org (aka freebsd-ports@) mailing list now requires you to
> subscribe to the list before posting. This brings us two important benefits:
> * This should cut back tremendously on spam coming through the list.
> * Users are more likely to find better answers to their que
On Sun, 10 Dec 2017, Tilman Keskinöz wrote:
I must be living in a parallel universe, checking
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2017-December/thread.html
there has been one (1) spam message getting through so far this month.
That's a really tremendous amount of spam.
Sigh...
Adam Weinberger writes:
>> On 9 Dec, 2017, at 9:27, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> I'll pass along a tip that I just sent to postmaster@: in the past (for
> other lists @FreeBSD.org), some folks have subscribed to receive the
> list mail at some address, but tried to post from a different address.
Fo
On 12/9/2017 3:13 PM, Tilman Keskinöz wrote:
> On 12/09/2017 17:27, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>> The po...@freebsd.org (aka freebsd-ports@) mailing list now requires you
>> to subscribe to the list before posting. This brings us two important
>> benefits:
>>
>> * This should cut back tremendously on s
On 12/09/2017 17:27, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> The po...@freebsd.org (aka freebsd-ports@) mailing list now requires you
> to subscribe to the list before posting. This brings us two important
> benefits:
>
> * This should cut back tremendously on spam coming through the list.
I must be living in a
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, Adam Weinberger wrote:
* This should cut back tremendously on spam coming through the list.
Many many thanks! Now if I can just get some other lists I'm on to see
the light of day (Debian, I'm looking at you)...
Half-seriously, I'll probably stick with FreeBSD after all
On 9 Dec, 2017, at 9:27, Adam Weinberger wrote:
The po...@freebsd.org (aka freebsd-ports@) mailing list now requires you
to subscribe to the list before posting. This brings us two important
benefits:
* This should cut back tremendously on spam coming through the list.
* Users are more li
The po...@freebsd.org (aka freebsd-ports@) mailing list now requires you to
subscribe to the list before posting. This brings us two important benefits:
* This should cut back tremendously on spam coming through the list.
* Users are more likely to find better answers to their questions: The
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