Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.28.0755 +0200]: If you want secure email, encrypt it. Don't depend on the transport. And the envelope? I really doubt that you have set up your mail server so that your provider couldn't *trivially* launch a man-in-the-middle attack

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 02:53:21AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday June 19 2005 2:31 am, Simon Huggins wrote: You can see on your blacklist backlash that JaNET, the UK's academic network is listed as respecting the DUL. Blacklisting via the DUL is a positive measure when coupled

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-26 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:40:19PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.19.1153 +0200]: DULs are considered stupid, you might as well just deny mail from 0.0.0.0/0. I disagree. These days, any moron and their father can set up a mail server with

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:42:30AM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:30:14PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: I'd like to think Branden would fix his mail setup for leader@ (or best get his ISP to remove his IP from the DUL or provide one which isn't on that list) in order

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Adam McKenna
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:03:15AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: I don't see him trying to fix anything. Rather, I see him not wasting time on trying to fix brainlessly broken crap but instead just ignoring it and carrying on. It is fine for individual developers to act like antisocial

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:40:29PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Adam McKenna] It is fine for individual developers to act like antisocial fuckwits. Sure. Just carry on the way you are. :) It is not acceptable for our DPL to behave that way (not when acting in his role as DPL,

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:46:34AM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: You missed: I received an interview request from Andy Channelle of the UK publication Linux Format, but unfortunately was unable to get my response to him because he's `blocking my mail`_. A freelancer for the `Gartner

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread MJ Ray
Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As DPL he is the public face of the project and should make extra effort to contact people when doing so would benefit the project. Sure, but many of these people don't put telephone numbers on their emails. Some put a web address and then you can work out

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:31:28AM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: I originally sent this mail to: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] i.e. Leader and Project SCUD

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:55:58PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As DPL he is the public face of the project and should make extra effort to contact people when doing so would benefit the project. Sure, but many of these people don't put telephone numbers on

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:44:21AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: I don't quite agree with Branden's page that it is entirely the blocker's fault - there's some blame with his ISP, or maybe his ISP's relations with abuse.net and friends. I don't understand how you are inferring an assignment of blame

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:22:33PM -0500, Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader wrote: Again, for those who are reading in a hurry: As of 10 May 2005, when I find myself blacklisted when sending mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED], I fall back to a host that is not blacklisted. Great news.

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread MJ Ray
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:44:21AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: I don't quite agree with Branden's page that it is entirely the blocker's fault - there's some blame with his ISP, or maybe his ISP's relations with abuse.net and friends. I don't understand

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday June 21 2005 9:12 pm, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 05:04:32AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday June 19 2005 3:55 am, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.19.1242 +0200]: And if your argument here is that their

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:44:00PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday June 21 2005 9:12 pm, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 05:04:32AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Why pay someone else to do what I can do myself for free? because you can't do it yourself for free - at least

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday June 22 2005 12:19 am, Craig Sanders wrote: You wrongly assume it isn't a valid option when for many people it's the only option. Deal. how is whinging a valid option? it won't even achieve anything (aside from making you look like a whinging loser)

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:10:54AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:02:26 +0100, Simon Huggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sure, not with his maintainer hat on, not with his personal hat on, but when you're in a role and posting from a role address I believe that

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.22.1642 +0200]: how is whinging a valid option? it won't even achieve anything (aside from making you look like a whinging loser) http://ursine.ca/Craig_Sanders Or yourself. Wow. Are we going passive aggressive now? Things like

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:07:34AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: No. The DPL, hopefully, jas better ways to spend his time, and more critical tasks to perform, than to jump through hoops to please people who just drop mail without paying any attention to content. Note that this

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-22 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:30:14PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: I'd like to think Branden would fix his mail setup for leader@ (or best get his ISP to remove his IP from the DUL or provide one which isn't on that list) in order to help the Debian project's image and not just been seen as biting

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Craig Sanders
be extra costs. note that there is no third option of whinging about how your rights are being infringed because your dynamic-IP mail is being blocked. you do not have ANY right to demand that your mail must be accepted by anyone. nobody has that right. craig ps: as for branden's mail policies - IMO

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Blu Corater
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 02:12:55PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 05:04:32AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday June 19 2005 3:55 am, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.19.1242 +0200]: And if your argument here is that their

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:02:26 +0100, Simon Huggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sure, not with his maintainer hat on, not with his personal hat on, but when you're in a role and posting from a role address I believe that occasional jumping through hoops may be required. I don't. People in

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:35:31 +0200, Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:35:50PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: 1) The Internet is peer-to-peer. You want to break that? 2) Some of the ISPs I've used refuse to relay my messages when they claim to be from my dropbear

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:37:14AM -0400, Blu Corater wrote: I reject at SMTP time any mail to which I can't answer, with a polite 550 message explaining that the server is blocking legitimate mail arbitrarily. it's your server, it is your right to use whatever arbitrarily stupid blocking

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:05:27AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:12:55 +1000, Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: note that there is no third option of whinging about how your rights are being infringed because your dynamic-IP mail is being blocked. you do not

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.20.0252 +0200]: I'd be impressed if your ISP can rewrite the Received: header produced by the hop after them to change the IP address of their SMTP server into your IP address. That's really not difficult, and it's being done. Remember: the

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Simon Huggins wrote: Our elected leader, when faced with a problem that he knows will stop his mail being delivered to certain recipients, should IMHO work around it in order to fulfill his role. Sure, it would be nice if the DPL would, but it would also be nice if the DPL

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:57:53PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Marino Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I support Branden's general approach, but think it would be better to include some more active announcement. I think it's unreasonable to demand post-holders work to accommodate daft

Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi all, I originally sent this mail to: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] i.e. Leader and Project SCUD I've not had any form of reply though and feel this is a

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday June 19 2005 2:31 am, Simon Huggins wrote: You can see on your blacklist backlash that JaNET, the UK's academic network is listed as respecting the DUL. Blacklisting via the DUL is a positive measure when coupled with virus scanning smarthosts as it reduces the number of virus

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday June 19 2005 3:40 am, martin f krafft wrote: And if your argument here is that their provider's mail spool sucks, delays or drops mail, or whatever, well... switch your goddamn provider then. Can't. Monopoly. -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday June 19 2005 3:55 am, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.19.1242 +0200]: And if your argument here is that their provider's mail spool sucks, delays or drops mail, or whatever, well... switch your goddamn provider then. Can't.

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Paul, * Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-19 14:06]: On Sunday June 19 2005 3:55 am, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.19.1242 +0200]: And if your argument here is that their provider's mail spool sucks, delays or drops mail, or

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19-06-2005 12:40, martin f krafft wrote: These days, any moron and their father can set up a mail server with proper queuing. That does not mean they can protect it against relaying. And because some (alot) can do it wrong, noone should be

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Sam Couter
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I se *no* (read that again: NO) reason why anyone should run a mail spool on a dial-up. 1) The Internet is peer-to-peer. You want to break that? 2) Some of the ISPs I've used refuse to relay my messages when they claim to be from my dropbear address

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.19.1404 +0200]: Why pay someone else to do what I can do myself for free? The problem is not you, the problem are the other morons who think like you *and* can't operate mail servers. With that I mean: I have no reason to believe that you

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday June 19 2005 6:22 am, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.19.1404 +0200]: Why pay someone else to do what I can do myself for free? The problem is not you, the problem are the other morons who think like you *and* can't operate mail servers.

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:35:50PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: 1) The Internet is peer-to-peer. You want to break that? 2) Some of the ISPs I've used refuse to relay my messages when they claim to be from my dropbear address instead of the ISPs domain. 3) If I can't afford DSL or cable, or

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:40:19PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: I disagree. These days, any moron and their father can set up a mail server with proper queuing. That does not mean they can protect it against relaying. I se *no* (read that again: NO) reason why anyone should run a mail spool

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.19.1544 +0200]: So punish them specifically. There are blackholes that do that. bl.spamcop.net, sbl.spamhaus.org, xbl.spamhaus.org and bl.ursine.ca all do that. And then they just hang up and dial in again to get a new IP. You need to

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday June 19 2005 9:32 am, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.19.1544 +0200]: So punish them specifically. There are blackholes that do that. bl.spamcop.net, sbl.spamhaus.org, xbl.spamhaus.org and bl.ursine.ca all do that. And then they just

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 04:35:31PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:35:50PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: 1) The Internet is peer-to-peer. You want to break that? 2) Some of the ISPs I've used refuse to relay my messages when they claim to be from my dropbear address

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 03:49:04PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: Blacklisting based on dial-up or dynamic status is nothing more than an effort to turn the internet into an oligarchy, where only the rich and powerful can control mail. It's a power grab. That's all it does and all it's intended

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread MJ Ray
Simon Huggins wrote: I've not had any form of reply though and feel this is a problem the project needs to address if the leader is going to continue to send mail =66rom a blacklisted host and not care about doing so. Blocking based solely on blacklists (instead of using them as one part in a