On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Spadge wrote:
Ross Finlayson wrote:
Am I the only person who's tired of all of the spam on this mailing list?
Why is this mailing list not set up so that only subscribers to the list
can post to it? This has been standard mailing list procedure for several
years now.
Spam is annoying, for sure. But I think every now and then spamassassin, or
whatever system the board uses, dies, and on those days we get a bunch of
spam. Usually, though, it's fixed pretty quickly ... until the next time.
It's quite possible that, as the list members aren't moderated, the sending
bots actually sign up. I'm not sure about this, though. I've not tested the
list with an unsigned address, either, but it's quite possible you do have
to be a member to post.
Once in a while, the spam filtering on FreeBSD.org keels over and the level of
spam briefly increases until it's fixed. Over the weekend, the FreeBSD.org
hardware was relocated to a rolling rack in preparation for it to be moved to
a different colo, since Yahoo! is vacating the current colo it's sitting in.
Disruption of this type often results in a window where spamassassin isn't
processing in-bound mail, so it bypasses spam filtering; I expect this is
probably what happened with respect to a bump in the spam rate in the last day
or two.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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