Re: arch...@mail-archive.com Slow to List New Posts?

2012-07-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Jeff, Fair enough, I found how to have http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html subscribe something other than the envelope or header from address. If you think this would be useful for others, please consider sharing either here, or we can put in the http://mail-archive.com/faq.html if appropriate

Re: arch...@mail-archive.com Slow to List New Posts?

2012-07-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, I'm waiting for some subscription confirmations to turn up at http://www.mail-archive.com/archive@mail-archive.com/. OK, I think it was the SPF softfail that's making the mailing list discard my subscribe attempt. $ dig +short mail-archive.com txt v=spf1 a ptr a:sea.gmane.org

Re: arch...@mail-archive.com Slow to List New Posts?

2012-07-01 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Fair enough, I found how to have http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html subscribe something other than the envelope or header from address. If you think this would be useful for others, please consider sharing either here, or we can put in the http://mail-archive.com/faq.html if appropriate. I was a bit

arch...@mail-archive.com Slow to List New Posts?

2012-06-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, I'm waiting for some subscription confirmations to turn up at http://www.mail-archive.com/archive@mail-archive.com/. The latest as of writing is Reminder: Jessica Brown invited you to join Facebook... Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:21:22 -0700 Is it updating OK? Cheers, Ralph

RE: [Gossip] yahoo groups destroying mail-archive.com formatting ? unreadable) - can anything be done?

2006-05-22 Thread Jeff Marshall
@jab.org Subj: [Gossip] yahoo groups destroying mail-archive.com formatting (unreadable) - can anything be done? (well, I'm guessing it's because of yahoo groups...) large sections (sometimes almost all) of the email ends up not being displayed for an example, start here and follow the thread http

[Gossip] How to subscribe to mail-archive.com?

2005-03-13 Thread Mahesh Devjibhai Dhola
Hi, I am using this first time, Hello to everybody, I want to add mailing list of one MSN technical group, how can i do that? Please help me -- Regards, Mahesh Devjibhai Dhola Empower yourself Technical Leader (ODT, Ahmedabad) (+91 98257 21644) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [Gossip] How to subscribe to mail-archive.com?

2005-03-13 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
I want to add mailing list of one MSN technical group, how can i do that? Please help me Mahesh, I don't know anything about MSN. But if you are the administrator of a mailing list, you just need to add archive@mail-archive.com as a subscriber to the list. Maybe MSN makes this complicated

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-21 Thread Earl Hood
On November 21, 2003 at 10:20, Dan Kegel wrote: Some would argue that spam exists precisely because running a mail server is so economical. Perhaps it should be more expensive. Small ISPs and organizations can relay mail via their DSL provider's servers, just like individuals do.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-21 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: as the little guy can always use his ISP's mail server. If only it was that easy! c.1998 I set up the filmscanners list using local s/w sending BCC through my domain host/ISP, cix.co.uk. c.1999 they asked me to make other arrangements as mail volume was

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-20 Thread Tony Sleep
Jeff Breidenbach wrote: Tony's counterargument about false positives doesn't hold water, because if a list is running afoul of blocklists, it is pretty much screwed anyway. Help me out here please! How 'screwed'? I am not running an open relay according to testing via

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-20 Thread Dan Kegel
Tony Sleep wrote: Jeff Breidenbach wrote: Tony's counterargument about false positives doesn't hold water, because if a list is running afoul of blocklists, it is pretty much screwed anyway. Help me out here please! How 'screwed'? I am not running an open relay according to testing via

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Stephen Turner
Ummm, why can't you just require a list to sign up for the service before you accept any messages from it? Then most spam sent directly to m-a's inbox would be automatically ignored. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UKhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ The question of whether a

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Dror Matalon
Hi, As a first step I would add a manual step to the subscription process. So when someone submits an archive, they would need to include *their* email address and they'd need to do the standard thing, click on a url that's included in the email. This, of course, involves some coding effort both

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Tony Sleep
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Presumably, all of the mail for any particular list originates from the same mail server (or relatively small collection of servers). And these are real mail servers, not random machines with no maintainer. You can use this property to advantage here, I think.

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Dan Kegel wrote: Jeff Breidenbach wrote: Running a serious spam filter on incoming mail is too computationally expensive (there is a lot of mail!) but it is an otherwise good suggestion. Unfortunately I know from my own inbox that a lot of spam these days is specifically designed to get around

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-19 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Thanks for all the ideas, I'll need some time to mull them over. A quick comment on Pat's astute RBL suggestion - I already do use a fairly gnarly setup for the Mail Transfer Agent, including use of RBLs. It more or less matches Marc Merlin's setup for SourceForge discussed here:

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-18 Thread Dror Matalon
Jeff, At first I thought this complaint was bogus (sorry roger), but I then went to http://www.mail-archive.com/lists.html and clicked randomly on lists and saw what's described here. Almost every list that I clicked on had only a few messages and they all looked like spam. So the problem is

Re: [Gossip] Re: oodles of spam lists at Mail-Archive.com?

2003-11-18 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Wow, this is really bad. Of the 23 new lists added to Mail-Archive today, 22 seem to be bogus ones caused by inbound spam. I didn't realize things were quite this out of control. ___ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Gossip] [Spam] mail-address harvested from mail-archive.com

2003-08-19 Thread terbpj
Hi, I have received many spam mails since few weeks. I have tried to remember the places where I gave my mail address and I found 3 mailing-lists, including jakarta-struts and jakarta-general which archives are managed by mail-archive.com. When I look at Google for my mail address (which I

Re: [Gossip] Re: Mhonarc problems at mail-archive.com

2001-11-12 Thread Louis Proyect
Everything looks great!!! Thanks, guys. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/12/2001 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org ___ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip

[Gossip] Re: Mhonarc problems at mail-archive.com

2001-11-11 Thread Louis N Proyect
Thanks, Earl. I only hope the guys at mail-archive.com (hiya!) can put 2.5 back in as soon as they straighten out some of the performance issues. I guess my other question is what would be the simplest way to re-build the date index after they do that (taking notes, fellows?). On Sat, 10 Nov

Re: [Gossip] Re: Mhonarc problems at mail-archive.com

2001-11-11 Thread Earl Hood
On November 10, 2001 at 00:04, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: Version v2.5 avoids this problem since HEADER and FOOTER resources are no longer supported. I downgraded backed to mhonarc 2.4.9 to see if it would help with performance problems. Was there a difference? In fact, the time sequence

Re: [Gossip] Re: Mhonarc problems at mail-archive.com

2001-11-11 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
is accessable off http://mail-archive.com/faq.html (src/rcfile.int) ___ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip

[Gossip] Mhonarc problems at mail-archive.com

2001-11-09 Thread Louis Proyect
. Take a look at: http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism%40lists.panix.com/maillist.html And you'll see what I am talking about. I am cc'ing the Mhonarc mailing list and Earl Hood, the guy who wrote Mhonarc. This *may* have something to do with the performance degradation at mail-archive.com. Louis

mail-archive.com

1998-09-18 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
I'm sorry for the spam we've had lately. I'm not happy with it but it seems to be targeted at the lists since I started archiving this list at mail-archive.com. I run two lists, one for GINA and one for AWE32 under Linux, and both were hit by the last bomb. Neal, I'm the person who runs mail