>>>>> "marrandy" == marrandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sunday 31 August 2003 07:08 pm, Bernd Paysan wrote: >> Martin Randy's way of automatically blocking any suspected spam >> sender (so that complaining doesn't help) makes sure that all >> freemailer users will be blocked on the long run. This is barely >> tolerable for a mailing list hoster, especially, since ezmlm allows >> only authorized posting, anyway. Since he > uses >> the same domain for his address, too, complaining is quite difficult, >> too (I can complain from work, but since I've already done that, it >> doesn't seem to help). >> This criticism is much weaker than anything I'd want to write right now. Luckily I didn't try to post anything since the blocking of mail.gmx.net started. Well, when I read the anouncement about all hotmail users being blocked (december 2002), I was actually quite amused. Schadenfreude. Thought the list administrator was either paranoid or didn't understand basics of email (the former now proves to be correct). I don't see any reason for a mailinglist which allows only authorized posting to implement such brute-force blocking. Blocking the gmx.net relay is ridiculous. GMX is *not* a spam-friendly organization. They might have had problems in the past having to answering support-mails to 10^6 users, but I doubt they behaved in the way marrandy described. They are quite respected here in Germany, about 50% of the people I know have GMX-accounts. They also nowadays do spam-filtering on all accounts. Their relay isn't open. It requires at least authentication via POP3. Are you sure you didn't misinterpret faked headers of spam you received? Bernd was lucky, as one of the main GForth developers he was finally allowed to mail again. Other's might not be that priviledged. Strange theories start coming to my mind about why this list has such low traffic ;-). I'm getting sick about all those stories about more or less willful cencorship on the net. BTW always wondered why the GForth list was handled by chaossolutions.org. As it is an official GNU project, wouldn't the FSF want to provide such service? Of course that question is somewhat irrelevant, migrating would just be to painful... David -- GnuPG public key: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
