Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:56:17 -0700 From: "Corey Snow" <corey@snowpoint.com> To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam problem on the list (Was: Re: URGENT) Message-ID: <3D15D381.5846.1596237C@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1024865486.69414.26.camel@lerlaptop> References: <3D15D17C.26108.158E3FFA@localhost>
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On 23 Jun 2002, at 15:51, Larry Rosenman wrote: > The technology to virus scan and SPAM scan exists, and runs on FreeBSD. > My question is why isn't it deployed on the hub.freebsd.org server(s)? > I believe that the reason was mentioned in another email after the one you quoted- the hub.freebsd.org server is running at its capacity limit, and a hardware upgrade would be likely necessary to support virus scanning all the mail. That's understandable, so unless someone finds a way to provide additional hardware/money (and I can't at the moment) we need to look at other ways to accomplish our goal, which is to reduce the amount of spam/viruses to the list, or at least to limit the amount to a dull roar. :) > I've gotten more virii this weekend to the FreeBSD lists I subscribe to > than any other place. > Yeah, it was pretty ugly for a bit there. But it seems to be calmer now. I'm more interested in fixing the problem than the blame at this point. :) Regards, Corey Snow To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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