Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:46:31 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> Cc: jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), root@ihack.net, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Competition Message-ID: <200008221846.LAA78194@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> of "Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:56:24 %2B1000." <200008221256.WAA09990@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>
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> Whilst this has gone on long enough, I just want to make one comment here. Which is time you might have more profitably spent in checking your facts before flying off the handle. Nobody has been explicitly blocked by FreeBSD.org for political reasons, Darren, and you can put your X-Files scenarios back in the box. The volume of spam coming into FreeBSD.org is simply too huge for us not to adopt some basic counter-measures against it, two of those being a subscription to MAPS and the rejection of mail from any site without valid DNS entries. The latter is necessary due to the number of spammers which fit the profile of trying to hide behind the relative anonymity of a rented or outright stolen IP address. It appears that someone simply doesn't know how to configure DNS properly and freebsd.org is hardly the only site which will reject mail from them on that basis; it's a very common spam-prevention technique. Please save your moral indignation and finger shaking for those occasions where they're actually merited. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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