Hi folks,
Sorry for the mass cross-post. I've got a few quick things to mention: (1) The quality of our mailing lists has been degraded both by more instances of spam getting through our filters and the ocasional viral payload sent by Outlook users. The spam problem has been addressed- We have finally faxed in all of the paperwork necessary (11 pages!) for the O|B|F to become a subscriber to the combined RBL/RSS/DUL blackhole databases maintained by the folks at mail-abuse.net. People interested in what RBL+ is should visit this URL: http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl+/ We are going to refuse inbound email from (a) known spammers and spam friendly networks, (b) known open relays and (c) IP addresses blocks used by ISP dialup customers. Once MAPS processes our info and allows our mail server to query the service I think that 99% of the spam will go away. This was the case back when the RBL service was free and we used it all the time. The virus problem is going to take longer to fix. Because we are going to transition from Linux-on-Alpha to Sun Solaris systems we are going to delay the process of purchasing or downloading antivirus scanners that hook into sendmail until we are up and running on the new boxes. Ok. Enough talk about bad stuff...on to the good stuff... ** It's time for another Open Bioinformatics Foundation Newsletter ** The first one we wrote back in October was very well recieved and it is past time to put out a new issue. I'm soliciting information from the various project heads-- write up anything you want about your project and get it to me within a week or so for inclusion. As an example of what we are trying to do, see the 1st newsletter online at http://open-bio.org/pipermail/open-bioinformatics-foundation/2001-October/000001.html Regards, Chris -- Chris Dagdigian, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Life Science IT & Research Computing Freelancer Office: 617-666-6454, Mobile: 617-877-5498, Fax: 425-699-0193 Yahoo IM: craffi _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
