Re: About spam in the list archive

2007-11-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:22:00PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
 Hi,
 
 it has been claimed that the Debian list archives contain spam email
 messages.
 
 There is a report as spam button in on the list archive page of each
 message, but presently, spam is by and large not removed from the
 archives. The submissions seem to help (more or less) with finding spam
 but need manual review before they could be acted upon.

If the clicking of the button does not lead to the spam email being
deleted immediately, it should be noted so people know that. At present,
people think so and get confused when it is still there. Maybe it should
listed as being in 'beta' ala google or say that the reporting will not
result in the immediate removal.

 
 I would like to put forward the following ideas and opinions towards
 systematic spam removals.
 
 Messages that are (beyond doubt) spam should be removed from the web
 archives. They should remain in the mailbox archives (and thus be
 accessible to developers on master.d.o).

IIUC you'd have them available in the downloaded archives? Why? For
spam/ham testing?

 
 Spam removals should be very conservative, with any doubt meaning no
 removal. In systematic removals, candidates need to be checked multiple
 times in order to minimize the risk of unmerited removal.
 
 The information which messages have been flagged junk and how that came
 to be (review logs) should be accessible along with the mailbox
 archives, so any developer can inspect the changes to the archive and
 complain to listmaster about removals.
 
 On the technical side, when removing messages from the list archives
 URIs of messages must not change. 

ACK.

Keep up the good work and kill spam!
-K
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Re: old debian isos

2007-11-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 05:27:11PM -0500, Michael Shuler wrote:
 On 11/02/2007 04:52 PM, Thomas Maaß wrote:
  hi!
  first thanks for your great work with debian!!!
  can you tell me, where i can download old cd-isos (potato and older)?
  thank you!
 
 I am not sure where you could find older CD iso images, but you can
 certainly use the floppy images from the archives:
 
 http://archive.debian.org/dists/
 
http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/debian-netinst/potato/files/?fl=d
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Re: Bits from the DPL: DSA and a few other things

2007-11-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 03 November 2007, Sam Hocevar wrote:
 \o/ DSA++ \o/
 -
I am very, very pleased to let you know that this morning Phil
 Hands (fil) added Peter Palfrader (weasel) to the adm group. Which
 means that the DSA team now has a new member! The first since, wow,
 quite some time.

This is of course very, very nice and my congratulations to Peter.
However, you must excuse me for not sharing your enthusiasm, at least not to 
the extend you seem to be feeling it.

I am grateful to everyone who made this possible, for bearing with
 my insistance, for making concessions, for being patient, and I hope
 this is only the first step to bigger and better teams in Debian. Of
 course the path is still long but I must admit this is truly refreshing.
 I wish great success to Peter for the thankless job that awaits him.

Could you please explain in what way the addition of a single person to the 
existing team (Phil already was DSA, even if not yet in the adm group) is 
going to resolve all the huge and structural communication problems between 
team members that we have heard about?

Are there any other changes that have been agreed to by existing members to 
address those issues, or will we now just have a larger team with 
structural communication problems?

Your announcement is nice, and I'm sure it took a lot of hard work to get 
this far, but I have serious doubts that it is enough. Some elaboration on 
the way forward, including a word on that other team that is always the 
subject of controversy and complaints, would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Frans Pop


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Re: Bits from the DPL: DSA and a few other things

2007-11-03 Thread Luk Claes
Frans Pop wrote:
 On Saturday 03 November 2007, Sam Hocevar wrote:
 \o/ DSA++ \o/

 Your announcement is nice, and I'm sure it took a lot of hard work to get 
 this far, but I have serious doubts that it is enough. Some elaboration on 
 the way forward, including a word on that other team that is always the 
 subject of controversy and complaints, would be very much appreciated.

Rome was not built on one day... everyone knows this is not the end, but
it's at least a start to get things rolling again...

Cheers

Luk


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Re: Bits from the DPL: DSA and a few other things

2007-11-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 03 November 2007, Frans Pop wrote:
 Could you please explain in what way the addition of a single person to
 the existing team (Phil already was DSA, even if not yet in the adm
 group) is going to resolve all the huge and structural communication
 problems between team members that we have heard about?

Eh, please scratch that bit between brackets. It's nonsense.


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Re: Bits from the DPL: DSA and a few other things

2007-11-03 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007, Frans Pop wrote:

 Could you please explain in what way the addition of a single person to the 
 existing team (Phil already was DSA, even if not yet in the adm group) is 
 going to resolve all the huge and structural communication problems between 
 team members that we have heard about?

   I do not like the way you are asking this question. I have no
intention to explain something that neither I or anyone else I know has
ever stated or implied.

 Are there any other changes that have been agreed to by existing members to 
 address those issues, or will we now just have a larger team with 
 structural communication problems?

   This event has not cancelled anything else that was being discussed
or acted upon. I will let everyone know when other things happen.

   I'm really sorry but this is the way I work. If you or other people
feel it is not appropriate, I shall of course listen. But innuendo and
worst case insinuations give me serious hearing problems.

Cheers,
-- 
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Re: Bits from the DPL: DSA and a few other things

2007-11-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 05:32:34PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
 On Saturday 03 November 2007, Frans Pop wrote:
  (Phil already was DSA, even if not yet in the adm group)
 
 Eh, please scratch that bit between brackets. It's nonsense.

I don't think it is nonsense - Phil was part of DSA for a long time, but I
seem to recall he didn't have access to everything at some point (I can't
put my finger on it, I forget), and he didn't make some decisions, for
example recently he facilitated some mirroradm permissions on sites where
James had already allowed basic access, but at the same time he didn't
introduce the mirroradm group to another host where we had no existing
permission.

In any event, if this means that he's got free hands[1] to do everything,
that's a good thing.

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Re: Bits from the DPL: DSA and a few other things

2007-11-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 05:39:05PM +0100, Sam Hocevar wrote:
  Are there any other changes that have been agreed to by existing members to 
  address those issues, or will we now just have a larger team with 
  structural communication problems?
 
This event has not cancelled anything else that was being discussed
 or acted upon. I will let everyone know when other things happen.

I think that it would be good if you shared your opinion on the recent
proposal I've been discussing on -project, regarding infrastructure teams
composition. That would help dispel this aura of secrecy in your statements :)

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Re: Bits from the DPL: DSA and a few other things

2007-11-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi,

Le samedi 03 novembre 2007 à 17:20 +0100, Frans Pop a écrit :
 This is of course very, very nice and my congratulations to Peter.
 However, you must excuse me for not sharing your enthusiasm, at least not to 
 the extend you seem to be feeling it.

Please let people place their enthusiasm in whatever they feel. Not
everyone can share the current enthusiasm on d-private.

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