I recommend reading the autoconf and automake lists via the NNTP
server at gmane.org, as the gmane.comp.sysutil.auto{conf,make}.*
groups. They filter spam for you and you don't have to screw
around with email subscriptions.
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Implementation details are beyond the scope of the Java virtual
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Lars Hecking wrote:
o gnu.org has a prohibitively high volume of email, and SA/Bayes require
massive resources. Therefore, the volume of mail going through SA or
any other tool must be limited.
Bogofilter does a fine job of Bayesian filtering and is 50-100X faster
than
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 18:58, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Lars Hecking wrote:
o Ruthless use of DNS blacklists before mails reach anti-spam. Most of
spam on GNU lists originates from known bad boys - Korea, China,
dialup/dyn-ip hosts, Comcast, *bell etc. Recommended
Unfortunately, SPAMmers quickly learn how to break through automated
defenses so that they can simply subscribe to lists. One way or
another, list servers are simply overwelmed. There seems to be no
reasonable solution.
The problem here is not that spammers subscribe to lists; these
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Face it, this is not 1994 anymore, the internet has lost its innocence,
and badly maintained open lists like the auto*tools lists on gnu.org are
a relict of the past.
Unfortunately, SPAMmers quickly learn how to break through
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:12:19AM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
I believe that all of the SourceForge lists are also open. They used
to support blocking non-subscribers but that became a nightmare for
maintainers so the capability was removed.
SourceForge uses SpamAssassin. Just for
Jay West wrote:
You should have sent this to the list owner/admin, not the list.
Yes. But the list owner for the automake list is gnulists-ownrr at
gnu.org, which is to say, effectively nobody. The list is really
running entirely on inertia. For example there are over a hundred
messages in
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 07:43, Bob Proulx wrote:
Jay West wrote:
You should have sent this to the list owner/admin, not the list.
Lars Hecking wrote:
Most likely, the same thing happens to OP that happens to me: the lists
run at gnu.org are crawling with
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 07:43, Bob Proulx wrote:
Jay West wrote:
You should have sent this to the list owner/admin, not the list.
Lars Hecking wrote:
Most likely, the same thing happens to OP that happens to me: the lists
run at gnu.org are crawling with spam, and a good number of them
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Face it, this is not 1994 anymore, the internet has lost its innocence,
and badly maintained open lists like the auto*tools lists on gnu.org are
a relict of the past.
Unfortunately, SPAMmers quickly learn how to break through automated
defenses so that
More succinctly put, the list server is having trouble reliably reaching
your machine. Most likely this isn't the list servers problem, it's yours
due to either sporadic connectivity on your part, or somewhere between the
list server and you, or sporadic DNS service on your part. If you have
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Every 10 days I get a message from the automake-mailing list that I have to
re-enable my subscription, because of excessive bounces.
This is very frustrating, I'm running linux, don't have any viruses, and i
don't spam people, i hardly ever sent
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Regards,
Jay West
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