Re: the Packages files should get to mirrors last

2004-09-09 Thread Steven Satelle
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:39:02 +0800, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the Debian mirrors, each day there is a period, perhaps a few > hours, between the time the Packages files arrive, and the time > packages themselves arrive. > > This is not a problem, because it happens early in the

Re: the Packages files should get to mirrors last -- no swarthy emails

2004-08-26 Thread Brian Pack
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 19:14, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Or block your user from sending in the first place. I suppose we see > .net .com .org are not safe to send to as there is no assurance > anymore that a reply might not come from a bad country and not the > United States. And according to a study

Re: the Packages files should get to mirrors last -- no swarthy emails

2004-08-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
The problem is an ursine.ca user reads the debian-user list and sees a message by from a jidanni.org user and sends an offlist comment directly to that jidanni.org user. When the jidanni.org user tries to email a response back to the ursine.ca user. His mail is blocked, greatly disturbing the jida

Re: the Packages files should get to mirrors last -- no swarthy emails

2004-08-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ursine.ca Postmaster wrote: correspondents there, and there is a obvious way to get your mail through anyway? Please, learn from the material you're given for once and get a clue. please get yourself one further clue - debian-users, just for example, has people from every single country in the w

Re: the Packages files should get to mirrors last -- no swarthy emails

2004-08-23 Thread Mark Symonds
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 13:35, Ursine.caPostmaster wrote: > > Nobody at ursine.ca regularly corresponds with people in Taiwan. > And it will always be that way, due to rules you have in place. I guess there must be a good reason why you don't do spamhaus/spews checks et. al. instead. -- Ma

Re: the Packages files should get to mirrors last -- no swarthy emails

2004-08-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ursine.ca Postmaster wrote: Nobody at ursine.ca regularly corresponds with people in Taiwan. Had you bothered to follow instructions, you would have found the explanation and how to get your message delivered anyway. like "jump through hoops" I guess? so if it is your claim that nobody at ursine.c

Re: the Packages files should get to mirrors last -- no swarthy emails

2004-08-22 Thread John Summerfield
Dan Jacobson wrote: How entertaining, responding to an email, I was blocked, being from an "unwashed" country. They send to me, and then when I reply to them, "Sorry sir, swarthy countries aren't allowed." <<< 550-All mail from countries with no known correspondents to users at this site <<< 550-is

Re: the Packages files should get to mirrors last -- no swarthy emails

2004-08-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
egiance, Mary had a Little Lamb, etc. Remember Rocky and Bullwinkle on TV? No no no don't deport my email Me? I am careful not to deliver faces slaps no matter how swarthy: http://jidanni.org/comp/spam/index_en.html At worst they would get no reply, auto or not. Oh, the message: From: Dan

the Packages files should get to mirrors last

2004-08-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
On the Debian mirrors, each day there is a period, perhaps a few hours, between the time the Packages files arrive, and the time packages themselves arrive. This is not a problem, because it happens early in the morning when all Debian users are of course asleep... except for me. It would seem to