Scott A Crosby writes: >I just had a 100+ message thread on perl5-porters discussing the >impact of my recent research on perl. I would not have had that had >that list been set up to deny non-subscribers from posting. And Perl >is being changed to be robust against the hash table attack we >discussed.
That was you? nice work! >My current research is analyzing SA for low-bandwidth DoS attacks on >its regular expressions. I'm using SA's regexp's as a test set and >I've identified several that are extremely suspicious. Now I am a >currently a member of the list (I'm not entirely sure why; I read it >rarely), so I can post my results here, but if I'm not... > >Well, would I be likely to send a subscription request, ack it, send >the email, get flooded with dozens of unrelated emails waiting for >replies to my post, then send an unsubscribe request, or send it off, >note the bounce and just drop it on the floor and think 'I tried'. The solution, as I mentioned in a followup mail, is to subscribe with the "nomail" setting on. That will not send you any of the SpamAssassin-talk traffic, but will allow posting. The dev team bandwidth is greatly reduced these days due to day-job pressures, and acting as "list mom" was becoming quite a lot of work. The increasing volume of spam (ironically) and viruses meant we had to do something. :( --j. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
