Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 20:42:06 -0800 From: Owner of many system processes <william@hq.newdream.net> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (WOT) Re: the best edited picture ever Message-ID: <20011206044206.GD12011@hq.newdream.net> In-Reply-To: <3C0EF641.39F0F56F@fpsn.net> References: <20011205201620.R16958-100000@localhost> <3C0EF641.39F0F56F@fpsn.net>
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Colin Faber wrote: > > I notice almost on a daily bases (which im sure the rest of you have > also) SPAM on both this list and on the bugs list. Totally unrelated > to the freebsd project.. > > Solutions suggested on how to correct such problems though the worst > thing that I can think of happening is nothing being done at all. the lengthy discussions regarding these problems everytime another spam, virus, or autoresponse from someone's misconfigured virus scanner get pretty annoying too. i realize i'm contributing to the noise by furthering this discussion, but i do think that stripping out binary attachments to the list except for pgp/MIME signatures would be a Good Thing. moderating the list would also be nice, although as someone mentioned, perhaps not appropriate for such a forum. closing the list to off-list subscribers seems to be the simplest option, and while it might be annoying, there could be some sort of alternate method of allowing people to post to the list (maybe a web form for non-subscribers or something)? freebsd-questions is also non-moderated, so perhaps it would be ok to simply close this list to off-list subscribers entirely? -- William Yardley System Administrator, Newdream Network william@hq.newdream.net http://infinitejazz.net/will/pgp/gpg.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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