Re: spam sent to debian.org addresses

2003-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:53:31AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: A big part of the spam can be trivially blocked at the point where it enters the Debian servers, using DNSRBLs and other sensible restrictions. When it enters my mailer, it can not be trivially blocked as

Re: spam sent to debian.org addresses

2003-05-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:53:31AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: A big part of the spam can be trivially blocked at the point where it enters the Debian servers, using DNSRBLs and other sensible restrictions. When it enters my mailer, it

Re: spam sent to debian.org addresses

2003-05-01 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thursday 01 May 2003 15:36, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:53:31AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: A big part of the spam can be trivially blocked at the point where it enters the Debian servers, using DNSRBLs and other sensible restrictions. When it

Debian reliability growth

2003-05-01 Thread Remi Perrot
I want, with this mail, to start a campaign on improving Debian reliability. Policy on improving stable release are, in my humble opinion, too restrictive and don't give the opportunity to improve Debian quality out of security fix. I think that as release cycle is very long we have to accept

Re: spam sent to debian.org addresses

2003-05-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lot of legitimate mail can be trivially blocked this way, as well, which is why it doesn't make sense to drop it on the server side. No. Using SBL definitely does not block a lot of legitimate mail. -- ciao, Marco

Re: spam sent to debian.org addresses

2003-05-01 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 22:50, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 08:50:43PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: What's wrong with our mail system? Why can't the debian admins blacklist a well known spammer, or even better use a reputable DNSBL like SBL? I asked the same questions to