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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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. Recommen
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 Spa
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. Jus
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 automa
> 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
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 th
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
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 s
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 th
> 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 ha
ct me off-list and I'll try to help.
Regards,
Jay West
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Subject: excessive bounces
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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 har
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