[spam] just forwarding my messages with Greg during downtime to the list. When confused, share and preserve, that's my motto.
On Thu, May 27, 2021, 4:10 PM Greg Newby <gbne...@pglaf.org> wrote: > Here are the 900+ logfile messages for your email address, in case you > find anything informative. > > As noted, I've made a few changes. These include: > - turning off outbound spamassassin for cypherpunks list traffic, via > whitelist > - adding a bad spamc.cf setting, then fixing it (pertains to maximum > message length of messages, which isn't a factor in the cpunks list) > - removing blacklist checking, as mentioned on the list > > The bounce score in Mailman isn't much of an issue: if you get > unsubscribed, I can easily add you back. But I don't know where those > bounces came from - Mailman doesn't provide an easy way, even for a list > admin, to recover specific bounce details. > > I'm not paranoid about surveillance on the cypherpunks list, since it's an > open list with open archives. The subscriber list is kept confidential > within Mailman (so only I can see it), but anyone that could tap the > network would know who messages were going to. So, it's confidential, but > barely secure. > > The standard techniques like John linked to are much more likely to be > damaging, or potentially damaging, to the cypherpunks list: > https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm > > Meanwhile, though, it's distressing that gmail seems to be filtering. I > indeed confirmed that a list message went to the spam folder, but it was > visible there (i.e., it didn't simply disappear, for me). > > Best, > Greg > > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 01:23:10PM -0400, Karl wrote: > > >> Maybe some day a cronjob that filters logs for only people who post, > > >> or only who have an option set, could make for public logs eventually > > >> ... > > > > > > Yes, that would be aligned with the transparency that is the > philosophy of > > > the list. > > > Best, > > > Greg > > > > > > > grep --fixed-strings --file=one_email_address_per_line.txt > > /var/log/mailman/bounce.log > public_logfile > > > > mailman is written in python; i'm thinking of how hackable it might be. > > > > sorry to be bugging you, it's sad the bounces don't show up in the > > logs =S really some malicious sotware could be messing with us. > > cleaning logfiles is such a basic part of malicious software. >