Re: Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2006-08-17 Thread Alfonso_Arizaga/etxekide . com
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Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-07-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Elie Rosenblum: On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:41:04AM +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. Actually, in my experience on very heavily utilized mail servers,

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-07-07 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On list servers, where most mail is outgoing? This would be really suprising. Assume that the majority of the outgoing mail volume from a list server depends on incoming mail to this list server. If you reduce the incoming volume to this list server,

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le Lun 27 Juin 2005 10:14, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen a écrit : Since this is contrary to my experience with greylisting, I'd like to hear more about your experiences with it, and why you consider greylisting really painful. I already did : for personnal use (and I use

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mar 28 Juin 2005 08:36, Bob Proulx a écrit : Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le Lun 27 Juin 2005 10:14, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen a écrit : Since this is contrary to my experience with greylisting, I'd like to hear more about your experiences with it, and why you consider greylisting really

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-28 Thread paddy
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:58:40AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le Mar 28 Juin 2005 08:36, Bob Proulx a écrit : I think you misunderstand. Remember that only the first exchange with a new address is delayed. After the initial exchange there is no more delay. Your continuing

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-27 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I fully disagree, greylisting is really painful Since this is contrary to my experience with greylisting, I'd like to hear more about your experiences with it, and why you consider greylisting really painful. I'm also interested in hearing about the

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Lun 27 Juin 2005 10:14, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen a écrit : Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I fully disagree, greylisting is really painful Since this is contrary to my experience with greylisting, I'd like to hear more about your experiences with it, and why you consider

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-26 Thread Elie Rosenblum
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:41:04AM +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. Actually, in my experience on very heavily utilized mail servers, greylisting greatly

Re: packages.d.o mail (Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please)

2005-06-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le jeudi 23 juin 2005 à 19:33 +0200, Andreas Barth a écrit : * Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050623 19:31]: On Jun 23, Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are plans to merge @packages.d.o and @packages.QA.d.o, so that both reach the maintainer and the PTS subscribers. The

Re: packages.d.o mail (Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please)

2005-06-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 24, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patches accepted. The PTS source is in CVS (cvs.debian.org:/cvs/qa/pts) and you can see the installation at master.debian.org:/org/packages.qa.debian.org/ I am not the one who is polluting the rest of the network, if you can't get it right

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-24 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno dom, 19-06-2005 alle 19:19 +0200, Josselin Mouette ha scritto: Le dimanche 19 juin 2005 à 19:11 +0200, Frans Pop a écrit : If I am blocked by something like SORBS when answering installation reports or something like that, I will sometimes resend a mail through my ISP, sometimes

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050622 11:22]: On Monday 20 June 2005 21:45, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, the major problem now are the @packages.debian.org addresses, I have ~20 of them and most days they account for 1/3 to 1/2 of all the spam I receive (and almost

packages.d.o mail (Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please)

2005-06-23 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Andreas Barth [Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:54:29 +0200]: The packages.d.o-addresses are a really useful tool for contacting multiple maintainers e.g. for transitions. They were quite helpful during e.g. the release of sarge. There are plans to merge @packages.d.o and @packages.QA.d.o, so that

Re: packages.d.o mail (Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please)

2005-06-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Adeodato Simó ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050623 16:50]: * Andreas Barth [Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:54:29 +0200]: The packages.d.o-addresses are a really useful tool for contacting multiple maintainers e.g. for transitions. They were quite helpful during e.g. the release of sarge. There are plans

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 23 June 2005 21:54, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050622 11:22]: On Monday 20 June 2005 21:45, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, the major problem now are the @packages.debian.org addresses, I have ~20 of them and most

Re: packages.d.o mail (Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please)

2005-06-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 23, Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are plans to merge @packages.d.o and @packages.QA.d.o, so that both reach the maintainer and the PTS subscribers. The QA address requires the presence of an X-PTS-Approved header to let a message reach package@p.q.d.o, but I

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050623 18:04]: On Thursday 23 June 2005 21:54, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The packages.d.o-addresses are a really useful tool for contacting multiple maintainers e.g. for transitions. They were quite helpful during e.g. the release of sarge.

Re: packages.d.o mail (Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please)

2005-06-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050623 19:31]: On Jun 23, Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are plans to merge @packages.d.o and @packages.QA.d.o, so that both reach the maintainer and the PTS subscribers. The QA address requires the presence of an X-PTS-Approved header

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Thomas Bushnell BSG | Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | On 18-Jun-05, 17:24 (CDT), Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | An email address with such blocking on it is therefore not suitable | for the Maintainer: field of a Debian package. | | Any spam filtering

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm saying you must make sure you can get bug reports from users. So having you maintainer address be a sink to /dev/null would be fine since you can read bug reports on the web. No. You need to be able to get bug reports from users even if they

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-23 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Steve Kemp wrote: Email may appear to be realtime, and you may even expect it to be because this is frequently how it works. But this is not guaranteed. Either way people's, misguided, beliefs on the realtimeness of email delivery is not a valid reason to choose against greylisting.

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-23 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Russell Coker wrote: Why is it tolerable to receive 200 spams in a day? On a bad day I will receive over 100 spams even though I use most of the anti-spam measures that some people in this discussion don't like. I receive ~500/day. Of those maybe 4 make it through SpamAssassin. I rarely

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 09:21, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 05:58:11PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: Rejecting every suggestion for an improvement is not helpful. Yes, it is, if every suggestion for improvement is a poor one. Lack of good ideas does not

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 01:46, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could help by listing the anti-spam measures that you consider to be acceptable. Rejecting every suggestion for an improvement is not helpful. I am ok with anti-spam

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 20 June 2005 21:45, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, the major problem now are the @packages.debian.org addresses, I have ~20 of them and most days they account for 1/3 to 1/2 of all the spam I receive (and almost all of it could be blocked with the CBL). Why not just

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 22, Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just block mail sent to the packages.debian.org addresses? No-one sends real mail to them anyway so they are just a free pass for spammers. Mainly because I do not know if I can do it without creating backscatter, and I will not

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 21 June 2005 01:46, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could help by listing the anti-spam measures that you consider to be acceptable. Rejecting every suggestion for an improvement is

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 19:32, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am ok with anti-spam measures which enable a well-behaving false positive sender to know they have run afoul, and in which the maintainers of the mechanism promise to try and adjust the system so that the

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 19:23, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 22, Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just block mail sent to the packages.debian.org addresses? No-one sends real mail to them anyway so they are just a free pass for spammers. Mainly because I do

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 07:21:52PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: On Monday 20 June 2005 21:45, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, the major problem now are the @packages.debian.org addresses, I have ~20 of them and most days they account for 1/3 to 1/2 of all the spam I receive

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-22 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 07:19:44PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: On Tuesday 21 June 2005 09:21, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 05:58:11PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: Rejecting every suggestion for an improvement is not helpful. Yes, it is, if every

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 23 June 2005 07:17, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it is, if every suggestion for improvement is a poor one. Lack of good ideas does not justify bad ones; not having any good ideas does not invalidate or in any way reduce the value of pointing out the bad

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:51:57 +1000, Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Saturday 18 June 2005 01:07, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I perfectly understand what SMTP is, and I perfectly *don't* understand why having a 30 minutes delay or even a 2 or 3 hours delay in some

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Frans Pop wrote: Try mine: 195.240.184.66 And yes, it is static and not dynamic but unlikely to change rarely. Not listed either. I started using my own mailserver because the one from my provider was down a lot for a while or not delivering within something like 8 hours (they seem

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 19 June 2005 08:22, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: If you don't want to accept mail from users, for whatever reason, you don't have to. But Debian requires that uploads have a valid email address: and that means one that accepts

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 19 June 2005 08:24, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: An email address with such blocking on it is therefore not suitable for the Maintainer: field of a Debian package. What anti-spam measures do you consider acceptable for a Debian

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 18 June 2005 01:07, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I perfectly understand what SMTP is, and I perfectly *don't* understand why having a 30 minutes delay or even a 2 or 3 hours delay in some conditions is tolerable. Why is it tolerable to receive 200 spams in a day? On a

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 18 June 2005 01:33, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you didn't read one of my first posts : when the mail you receive comes from a big big big MX, and that they see a greylisted domain, since the time is sometimes 5 minutes, somtimes 10 and sometimes 20, they choose to

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Thursday 16 June 2005 23:48, Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do _not_ want to have my debian.org mail forwarding go through a greylisting service. I've had to deal with one too many user complaints due to greylisting. If it is a configurable service, then fine, other people may

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Lun 20 Juin 2005 09:58, Russell Coker a écrit : On Saturday 18 June 2005 01:33, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you didn't read one of my first posts : when the mail you receive comes from a big big big MX, and that they see a greylisted domain, since the time is sometimes 5

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Lun 20 Juin 2005 09:51, Russell Coker a écrit : On Saturday 18 June 2005 01:07, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I perfectly understand what SMTP is, and I perfectly *don't* understand why having a 30 minutes delay or even a 2 or 3 hours delay in some conditions is tolerable.

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Lun 20 Juin 2005 10:02, Russell Coker a écrit : On Thursday 16 June 2005 23:48, Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do _not_ want to have my debian.org mail forwarding go through a greylisting service. I've had to deal with one too many user complaints due to greylisting. If it is

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why would it be such a problem if you use a non-Debian email address for Debian correspondence? As far as I recall I have never used my Debian email address in the From: field of an email or in a Debian package maintainer field. Like I said, it

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 20 June 2005 18:09, Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why would it be such a problem if you use a non-Debian email address for Debian correspondence? As far as I recall I have never used my Debian email address in the From: field of an

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 05:58:11PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: Do you have any evidence to support yout claim that big mail servers are configured to handle gray-listing servers differently from other mail servers? Not quite the same thing as Pierre was describing but some mail server

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 20 June 2005 18:17, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have any evidence to support yout claim that big mail servers are configured to handle gray-listing servers differently from other mail servers? I do. I know personnaly some admins of big MX (not necessarily

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 20 June 2005 18:20, Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that, but it does not (IMHO) justify the use of greylising for everybody by default. I prefer to receive spam (and I do a lot through my @debian.org address, despite the fact that it's quite recent) that is filtered

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do. I know personnaly some admins of big MX (not necessarily ISPs, french schools/universities in my case) that have a special rule for domain that they know practicing greylisting, and that *force* the delay to be of 30 to 60 minutes. and they

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:30:50PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is realtime a requirement for bug reporting? Since delays could be weeks from graylisting--or worse--yes. Uh, no. If properly configured, graylisting will not produce such

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Laurent Fousse
* Stig Sandbeck Mathisen [Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:07:22PM +0200]: Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've written a little postfix POLICY daemon that does what I explained here. It's called whitelister, and it's in the repo. Though, it has not been (AFAIK) used in a big queue, but I

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 20, Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess that this doesn't have to be an @debian.org address. I've been considering removing my @debian.org address, the only things that go to it are debian-private (which I can hopefully get directed to another address) and spam. I

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 18-Jun-05, 17:24 (CDT), Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An email address with such blocking on it is therefore not suitable for the Maintainer: field of a Debian package. Any spam filtering system is going to have *some* false positives. Are you claiming that if I do *any*

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Steve Greenland wrote: On 18-Jun-05, 17:24 (CDT), Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An email address with such blocking on it is therefore not suitable for the Maintainer: field of a Debian package. Any spam filtering system is going to have *some* false

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could help by listing the anti-spam measures that you consider to be acceptable. Rejecting every suggestion for an improvement is not helpful. I am ok with anti-spam measures which enable a well-behaving false positive sender to know they have run

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:30:50PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is realtime a requirement for bug reporting? Since delays could be weeks from graylisting--or worse--yes. Uh, no. If properly

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 18-Jun-05, 17:24 (CDT), Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An email address with such blocking on it is therefore not suitable for the Maintainer: field of a Debian package. Any spam filtering system is going to have *some* false

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:48:05AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:30:50PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Since delays could be weeks from graylisting--or worse--yes. Uh, no. If properly configured, graylisting

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That being said, even if you couldn't do that, there still are ways to avoid the problem: e.g., do graylisting based on the /24 of the sending host, rather than on the /32, and make the delay only valid for five minutes rather than an entire hour.

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:03:34PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That being said, even if you couldn't do that, there still are ways to avoid the problem: e.g., do graylisting based on the /24 of the sending host, rather than on the /32, and

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 05:58:11PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: Rejecting every suggestion for an improvement is not helpful. Yes, it is, if every suggestion for improvement is a poor one. Lack of good ideas does not justify bad ones; not having any good ideas does not invalidate or in any way

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 19 juin 2005 00:34 +0200, Marco d'Itri a crit : Just to make clear: this requirement of yours is one you have invented. Me and a large part of the Internet. (Hint: RFCs are not the word of $GOD, but something which sites agree about to help interoperability.) How about all

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Frans Pop wrote: I think blocking mails based on an address being dynamic/static sucks. Indeed, but the only systems that send out email from dynamic IP addresses are spam zombies (90%[1]) and people who run their own MTA, which again are divided into clueless idiots running an open relay

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is simply no point in running a mail server on a dynamic IP. It will not be able to accept mail in a reliable way, even with dyndns, so you need some other host to accept and forward your mail to you anyway, so you can as well route it through a

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 19 June 2005 17:48, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, Frans Pop wrote: I think blocking mails based on an address being dynamic/static sucks. Indeed, but the only systems that send out email from dynamic IP addresses are spam zombies (90%[1]) and people who run their own MTA, You are

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Dim 19 Juin 2005 18:14, Frans Pop a crit : On Sunday 19 June 2005 17:48, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, Frans Pop wrote: I think blocking mails based on an address being dynamic/static sucks. Indeed, but the only systems that send out email from dynamic IP addresses are spam

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: There is simply no point in running a mail server on a dynamic IP. Would you define dynamic IP for me, just so I can be sure I know what you're talking about? It sounds here as if you mean an IP address which changes with some frequency. Is that right? Yes,

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 19 juin 2005 18:39 +0200, Simon Richter a crit : OTOH, I think greylisting can help here, by applying it to hosts that are listed as being dynamic. If the technology your ISP uses to connect you to the internet is so strikingly similar to the technology used by people who don't

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 19 June 2005 18:39, Simon Richter wrote: Hrm, that would indeed be a reason to accept mail from some IPs inside such dynamic blocks. Your IP does not seem to be listed as being dynamic, though. :-) Try mine: 195.240.184.66 And yes, it is static and not dynamic but unlikely to change

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 19 juin 2005 19:11 +0200, Frans Pop a crit : If I am blocked by something like SORBS when answering installation reports or something like that, I will sometimes resend a mail through my ISP, sometimes I just say @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ you, if you don't want to receive my mail,

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, even if said frequency is very low. If my ISP does not give me a guarantee that when I reconnect I will get the same address again, and that noone else is going to use that address, I consider it a dynamic IP. If so, lots of ISPs (mine, for

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 03:13:27PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Choosing not to use greylisting because it causes mail to become non-realtime is *not* a valid complaint. Which is the point I was trying to make in a roundabout fashion.

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: So my IP address, which my ISP promises will always be the same, and is initialized by DHCP, is static. But most of the IP addresses in the block are handed out dynamically. How will you be able to tell? Not reliably,

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: So my IP address, which my ISP promises will always be the same, and is initialized by DHCP, is static. But most of the IP addresses in the block are handed out dynamically. How will you be able to tell? Not reliably, that is sure, but the DUL has been pretty

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It stops a lot of viruses and spam, with no false positives. What's the problem? It has false positives, in fact, because it fails badly for certain perfectly reasonable kinds of email delivery. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So what? It's *e-mail*. If you need realtime, pick up a phone, or use one of any of the innumerable chat systems. Ok, from now on, I should report bugs to you by phone? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 6/18/05, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So what? It's *e-mail*. If you need realtime, pick up a phone, or use one of any of the innumerable chat systems. Ok, from now on, I should report bugs to you by phone? Is realtime a

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CBL only lists addresses that spam thier spamtraps, and removes listings automaticly after several days. They attempt not to list mail servers. To be removed immediatly, just fill out their web form with the IP address to be removed. Why is it my

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 18, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it my responsiblity to remove myself from CBL when you start refusing mail from me? What am I supposed to do when there become fifteen misbehaving BLs out there each in its own special way? Stop sending mail from

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 6/18/05, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So what? It's *e-mail*. If you need realtime, pick up a phone, or use one of any of the innumerable chat systems. Ok, from now on, I should

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jun 18, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it my responsiblity to remove myself from CBL when you start refusing mail from me? What am I supposed to do when there become fifteen misbehaving BLs out there each in its own special

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: Stop sending mail from dynamically-assigned IP addresses. Deal. Gee. There is no reliable way to know whether an IP address is static or not. SMTP is supposed to work from both: which means that graylisting is in fact violating the protocols in a

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 18 juin 2005 23:28 +0200, Marco d'Itri a crit : On Jun 18, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it my responsiblity to remove myself from CBL when you start refusing mail from me? What am I supposed to do when there become fifteen misbehaving BLs out there each

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:28:25PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Stop sending mail from dynamically-assigned IP addresses. Deal. Please show me how to check for dynamically-assigned IP. Bastian -- That unit is a woman. A mass of conflicting impulses. -- Spock and

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:39:45PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: So what? It's *e-mail*. If you need realtime, pick up a phone, or use one of any of the innumerable chat systems. Email is realtime. I receive mails much more quickly than five minutes on average; within seconds, typically, even

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 05:39:10PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: Email is realtime. I receive mails much more quickly than five minutes on average; within seconds, typically, even for round-trips to many mailing lists. Email may appear to be realtime, and you may even expect it to be

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Email may appear to be realtime, and you may even expect it to be because this is frequently how it works. But this is not guaranteed. The RFC requires best effort. Either way people's, misguided, beliefs on the realtimeness of email delivery is

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 03:08:38PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Email may appear to be realtime, and you may even expect it to be because this is frequently how it works. But this is not guaranteed. The RFC requires best effort. Sure.

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Choosing not to use greylisting because it causes mail to become non-realtime is *not* a valid complaint. Which is the point I was trying to make in a roundabout fashion. People are not using realtime in its technical sense here. They are using it to

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 18, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why should I have to do extra work to save you the effort? I guess Why should I waste a huge quantity of resources because a few people cannot accept that for most sites the costs/benefits ratio of accepting mail from dynamically-assigned

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 18, Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:28:25PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Stop sending mail from dynamically-assigned IP addresses. Deal. Please show me how to check for dynamically-assigned IP. If your ISP is a good ISP, this will be advertised (by way

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 18, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it my responsiblity to remove myself from CBL when you start refusing mail from me? What am I supposed to do when there become fifteen misbehaving BLs out there each in its own special way? Stop sending mail from

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 18, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Email is realtime. I receive mails much more quickly than five minutes on average; within seconds, typically, even for round-trips to many mailing lists. Reducing that to minutes on average is beyond unacceptable. What I like of you is your

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jun 18, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why should I have to do extra work to save you the effort? I guess Why should I waste a huge quantity of resources because a few people cannot accept that for most sites the costs/benefits

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jun 18, Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:28:25PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Stop sending mail from dynamically-assigned IP addresses. Deal. Please show me how to check for dynamically-assigned IP. If your ISP is

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jun 18, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it my responsiblity to remove myself from CBL when you start refusing mail from me? What am I supposed to do when there become fifteen misbehaving BLs out there each in its own special

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jun 18, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Email is realtime. I receive mails much more quickly than five minutes on average; within seconds, typically, even for round-trips to many mailing lists. Reducing that to minutes on average is beyond

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Robert Wolfe
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jun 18, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Email is realtime. I receive mails much more quickly than five minutes on average; within seconds, typically, even for round-trips to many mailing lists. Reducing that to minutes on average is beyond

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 19, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to make clear: this requirement of yours is one you have invented. Me and a large part of the Internet. (Hint: RFCs are not the word of $GOD, but something which sites agree about to help interoperability.) An email address with

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jun 19, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to make clear: this requirement of yours is one you have invented. Me and a large part of the Internet. What large part? for the Maintainer: field of a Debian package. So sue me. Naw,

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