Let's see what happens over the next week once the spam filtering is back up. If we're still getting lots of junk, then I guess we have to go moderated.
On a related note, I would be happy to see biojava-dev move to a members-only posting system since it is meant for guts discussions. The web archives mean that anybody who is interested can still read what was said. IMHO biojava-l should remain available for anybody (member or not) to post to, but without the spam. What do people think? Matthew ps thanks Chris for sorting this --- chris dagdigian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of our biggest anti-spam tools has been > unavailable since we moved > servers to the new internet connection and lost our > ability to query the > www.mail-abuse.org RBL+ blackhole lists. > > I followed up on my month-old request to have our > new IP added to the > ACL and got a reply back this evening that says we > should be good to go > in about 1 hour. > > mail-abuse.org 's DNS-blackhole lists are used at > the sendmail SMTP > server level and are our first line of spam defense. > > If people are seriously getting annoyed with spam > one option that > biojava-l list members can discuss is the idea of > making the list 100% > moderated (ie all posts must be manually approved). > The DAS and MOBY > people are doing this with good success. > > The problem with that is that we don't have the > volunteer bandwidth on > the O|B|F mailteam to handle moderating biojava all > by ourselves. We'd > need a few biojva-l members to step up and volunteer > their services as > list moderators. > > Regards, > Chris > part of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] OBF sysadmin cabal :) > > > > Schreiber, Mark wrote: > > Mmmm, who needs biojava when you can have half > price steak ;-) > > > > Seriously though, are we using the open-bio email > filters? We seem to > > get lots of spam that's not sneaking onto the > other lists. > > > > <grrrr/> > > - Mark > > > ======================================================================= > > Attention: The information contained in this > message and/or attachments > > from AgResearch Limited is intended only for the > persons or entities > > to which it is addressed and may contain > confidential and/or privileged > > material. Any review, retransmission, > dissemination or other use of, or > > taking of any action in reliance upon, this > information by persons or > > entities other than the intended recipients is > prohibited by AgResearch > > Limited. If you have received this message in > error, please notify the > > sender immediately. > > > ======================================================================= > > _______________________________________________ > > Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l > > -- > Chris Dagdigian, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Independent life science IT & informatics consulting > Office: 617-666-6454, Mobile: 617-877-5498, Fax: > 425-699-0193 > PGP KeyID: 83D4310E Yahoo IM: craffi Web: > http://bioteam.net > > _______________________________________________ > Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
