Igor, I took the freedom to forward this to debian-user, mainly because I stated that the email adress is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my fault, it is [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I think the information is interesting for the user list, too.
Thank you, Marcus ----- Forwarded message from Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de by localhost (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for <brinkmds/localhost> (single-drop); Sat, 04 Apr 1998 02:16:29 CEST Received: (qmail 22967 invoked from network); 3 Apr 1998 20:07:50 -0000 Received: from murphy.novare.net (HELO murphy.debian.org) (205.229.104.6) by mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de with SMTP; 3 Apr 1998 20:07:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 16331 invoked by uid 38); 3 Apr 1998 20:07:45 -0000 Resent-Date: 3 Apr 1998 20:07:45 -0000 Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 16310 invoked from network); 3 Apr 1998 20:07:44 -0000 Received: from bigpapa.nothinbut.net ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by murphy.novare.net with SMTP; 3 Apr 1998 20:07:43 -0000 Received: from hmm.nowhere ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [207.44.46.254]) by bigpapa.NothinBut.Net (8.8.7/8.8.7/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id PAA09773; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:07:35 -0500 Received: from hmm ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1]) by hmm.nowhere (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id PAA15069; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:07:35 -0500 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 (debian) To: Aaron Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: META: Can we please restrict the list? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Apr 1998 19:44:37 +1000." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 15:07:35 -0500 From: Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-Message-ID: <"UZPy1D.A.F_D.RGUJ1"@murphy> Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/1870 X-Loop: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am the person that deals with debian spam. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask everyone to forward the spam they see on debian lists to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do read -user, -devel, -private, -policy, and countless other debian lists ;), but sometimes I don't get to them fast enough, so if people forward the mail, it would help. > On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 07:00:20PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 05:52:10PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > > How far do you want to take this? We could say that all we ever see > > from person x is trash, so they don't belong here either. Bad idea. > aol, and the free email services, hotmail, juno, etc. > AOL seems to be a special case, its the single biggest source of junk on the > net. Well, AOL has millions of subscribers and only a tiny amount of them spam. AOL is also very serious and pro-active about fighting spam. They have filed quite a few lawsuits against spammers recently. Of course, it is very hard for them to filter every single new account, but they do cancel their accounts fast. I've decided to block all aol.com mail using procmail rule that will forward it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it's a real message, I will bounce it to the appropriate list. I hope this will only be a temporary measure. > I realize there are going to be exceptions to the general moronic level of > aol subscribers, but > couldn't they telnet to their accounts on master? (all real developers have > these). > and as for the free email services, just ban the lot of them. > Since one needs to have real net access to upload a package, one has > no need for the ability to post from the free (hotmail, juno and friends, > services). Sorry, there is a reason to use free email services. I change providers quite frequently, and notifying everyone of my new email address, and resubbing to all the lists got to be a big PITA real fast. From then on, I've been using a free email forwarding service, and it has been quite a relief. I know a lot of people (including some developers) who are in the same boat as I am. Thanks. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation.... Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]