Re: Spam mail being sent via the FreeBSD mailing lists

2021-05-26 Thread Thor Ablestar
Well, if you require "FreeBSD" somewhere in the letter with exception of "To" field it would be quite enough. You only have to announce that the "FreeBSD" keyword should be included. "Linux" is optional. Spammers have no idea what FreeBSD is. On 5/26/21 1:34 PM, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! On Ma

Re: Spam mail being sent via the FreeBSD mailing lists

2021-05-26 Thread Philip Paeps
On 2021-05-26 22:50:57 (+0800), Julian H. Stacey wrote: Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! On May 25, 2021, at 8:53 PM, jake h wrote: I have recently received several pieces of spam mail, apparently sent via this mailing list. These pieces of mail are the usual spam formula; Your phone has a virus, Ads

Re: Spam mail being sent via the FreeBSD mailing lists

2021-05-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Kurt Jaeger: > Hi! > > > On May 25, 2021, at 8:53 PM, jake h wrote: > > > I have recently received several pieces of spam mail, apparently sent via > > > this mailing list. These pieces of mail are the usual spam formula; Your > > > phone has a virus, Ads, Fake blackmail, so on and s

Re: Spam mail being sent via the FreeBSD mailing lists

2021-05-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > On May 25, 2021, at 8:53 PM, jake h wrote: > > > I have recently received several pieces of spam mail, apparently sent via > > > this mailing list. These pieces of mail are the usual spam formula; Your > > > phone has a virus, Ads, Fake blackmail, so on and so forth.

Re: Spam mail being sent via the FreeBSD mailing lists

2021-05-25 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > > On May 25, 2021, at 8:53 PM, jake h wrote: > > I have recently received several pieces of spam mail, apparently sent via > > this mailing list. These pieces of mail are the usual spam formula; Your > > phone has a virus, Ads, Fake blackmail, so on and so forth. > > Has anyone else notice

Re: Spam mail being sent via the FreeBSD mailing lists

2021-05-25 Thread Lucas Nali de Magalhães
> On May 25, 2021, at 8:53 PM, jake h wrote: > > I have recently received several pieces of spam mail, apparently sent via > this mailing list. These pieces of mail are the usual spam formula; Your > phone has a virus, Ads, Fake blackmail, so on and so forth. > Has anyone else noticed these spam

Re: Spam mail being sent via the FreeBSD mailing lists

2021-05-25 Thread Manfred Antar (KN6KBS)
I got one this morning Blackmail stuff - just delete it. > On May 25, 2021, at 4:52 PM, jake h wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I have recently received several pieces of spam mail, apparently sent via > this mailing list. These pieces of mail are the usual spam formula; Your > phone has a virus, Ads,

Re: [SPAM]Re: Latest -CURRENT/i386 could not start under VirutalBox 4.1.18 and 4.2 (Windows host): hangs up after atrtc0 detection

2012-10-04 Thread Ian Lepore
On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 22:24 +0200, Marek Salwerowicz wrote: > W dniu 2012-10-04 20:51, Lev Serebryakov pisze: > > Hello, Marek. > > You wrote 3 октября 2012 г., 23:17:35: > > > >>> atrtc0: port 0x70-0x71 on acpi0 > > MS> still the same in my environment, running FreeBSD 9.1 under ESXi5.1 host > >

Re: [SPAM]Re: Latest -CURRENT/i386 could not start under VirutalBox 4.1.18 and 4.2 (Windows host): hangs up after atrtc0 detection

2012-10-04 Thread Marek Salwerowicz
W dniu 2012-10-04 20:51, Lev Serebryakov pisze: Hello, Marek. You wrote 3 октября 2012 г., 23:17:35: atrtc0: port 0x70-0x71 on acpi0 MS> still the same in my environment, running FreeBSD 9.1 under ESXi5.1 host MS> Do you have any solution? In my case it was local patch for exotic embedded c

Re: [SPAM] freebsd-current Digest, Vol 367, Issue 6

2010-10-28 Thread Littlecho
--Best Regards,Littlecho This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content and is believed to be clean. > Original Message >From: freebsd-current-requ...@freebsd.org >To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org >Sent: Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 20:01 PM >Subject: [SPAM] freebsd-current Diges

Re: [SPAM] Re: Error message while updating src for FreeBSD 9 current

2010-09-23 Thread Ralph Ellis
Niclas Zeising wrote: On 2010-09-23 14:02, Bartosz Stec wrote: On 2010-09-23 13:36, Niclas Zeising wrote: On 2010-09-23 13:21, Ralph Ellis wrote: Niclas Zeising wrote: On 2010-09-23 04:29, Ralph Ellis wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded my FreeBSD 8.1 installation to FreeBSD 9 current via buildwo

Re: [SPAM] Re: Error message while updating src for FreeBSD 9 current

2010-09-23 Thread Bartosz Stec
On 2010-09-23 13:36, Niclas Zeising wrote: On 2010-09-23 13:21, Ralph Ellis wrote: Niclas Zeising wrote: On 2010-09-23 04:29, Ralph Ellis wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded my FreeBSD 8.1 installation to FreeBSD 9 current via buildworld and buildkernel. I was able to one general ports, src and

Re: spam

2001-12-23 Thread Thomas Hurst
* mikem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't think the effort is worth the reward. If the frequency > increases, then the issue should be revisited. > > If we do decide this problem merits action... How about filtering list messages through spamassassin? Anything that matches can get bounced so

Re: spam

2001-12-23 Thread Julian Elischer
I meant anyone who is subscribed as a starting point, and going forwards, anyone referenced in an email and not explicitly NACK'd On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Riccardo Torrini wrote: > On 22-Dec-2001 (22:23:24/GMT) aaron wrote: > > [...removed CC: because I suppose all subscribed this list...] > > >

Re: spam

2001-12-23 Thread mikem
my 2 cents worth, I don't think the effort is worth the reward. If the frequency increases, then the issue should be revisited. If we do decide this problem merits action... A simple solution would be to restrict posts to subscribers of the lists (-questions could be an exception). Another sim

Re: spam

2001-12-23 Thread Riccardo Torrini
On 22-Dec-2001 (22:23:24/GMT) aaron wrote: [...removed CC: because I suppose all subscribed this list...] >> any address found in the archives is automatically subscribed Any address found N times (where N >> reasonably high number, like 10, because we can not really assume that the archives a

Re: spam

2001-12-22 Thread aaron
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > I would suggest that we use a 'modified' subscription method, > where simply being mentionned in the list is enough to subscribe.. > > Now, before you laugh.. there's a twist.. > any address found in the archives is automatically subscribed > and tha

Re: spam

2001-12-22 Thread Julian Elischer
I would suggest that we use a 'modified' subscription method, where simply being mentionned in the list is enough to subscribe.. Now, before you laugh.. there's a twist.. any address found in the archives is automatically subscribed and that includes in the text.. also any mail not subscribed it

Re: spam

2001-12-22 Thread aaron
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :I'm starting to get spam since I joined this list, and the spam is > :coming from freebsd.org. If I'm reading the headers right, it's coming > :in through a freebsd.org mail server. > > Ha. In the last two weeks the amount of personal spam I re

Re: spam

2001-12-22 Thread Leif Neland
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Julian Stacey wrote: > > I can only hope that our illustrious congress has grown as tired of > > spam as I have and will fix the law to simply ban it. > > -Matt > > That would help, (most SPAM I receive even in Germany is

Re: spam

2001-12-21 Thread Julian Stacey
> I can only hope that our illustrious congress has grown as tired of > spam as I have and will fix the law to simply ban it. > -Matt That would help, (most SPAM I receive even in Germany is from USA), but spammers would move offshore from USA

Re: spam

2001-12-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I'm starting to get spam since I joined this list, and the spam is :coming from freebsd.org. If I'm reading the headers right, it's coming :in through a freebsd.org mail server. Ha. In the last two weeks the amount of personal spam I receive has gone up exponentially. I'm getting aro

Re: spam

2001-12-20 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Joe Halpin wrote: >I'm starting to get spam since I joined this list, and the spam is >coming from freebsd.org. If I'm reading the headers right, it's coming >in through a freebsd.org mail server. >Is this just a normal part of being on the list? You're not getting the spam

Re: SPAM

1999-05-11 Thread Bob Vaughan
here's an idea.. why not have two addresses for the list. the first would be the public address, and would be restricted to subscribers. the second would be a non-published address, which would be unrestricted, and would feed the published list via a side door. only the first list would be ope

Re: SPAM

1999-05-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Chuck Robey writes: > Garrett's points are why I sugggested that it would not be a useable > approach for -questions, newbies, and mabye hackers, 'cause they all get > a fair amount of posts like what Garrett describes. Current and > committers do NOT get such an audience, and the argument doesn'

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Chuck Robey wrote: > > Garrett's points are why I sugggested that it would not be a useable > approach for -questions, newbies, and mabye hackers, 'cause they all get > a fair amount of posts like what Garrett describes. Current and > committers do NOT get such an audience, and the argument doesn

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread eagle
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > A spammer could simply become a list member and then SPAM. They won't care > > if they are removed once they have perpetrated their abuse. > > The could, but most wouldn't, wouldn't even know how.

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > a fair amount of posts like what Garrett describes. Current and > committers do NOT get such an audience, and the argument doesn't hold > for those lists, Yes they do. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of t

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Chuck Robey scribbled this message on May 10: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > A spammer could simply become a list member and then SPAM. They won't care > > if they are removed once they have perpetrated their abuse. > > The could, but most wouldn't, wouldn't even know ho

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:49:45 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Steven P. Donegan" > > I have received more email today related to SPAM than I have actual SPAM > in the last month+ What has triggered this solution looking for a problem? > that is an eloquent statement of the situat To Unsu

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
> > < said: > > > Have you ever considered only allowing list members to post, or are > > there difficulties that make this impossible? > > Yes, there are. > i forgot to mention that such a policy creates a single "allowed" address per user...not good. jmb > -GAWollman > > To Un

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
> Delivered-To: j...@hub.freebsd.org > Cc: curr...@freebsd.org > References: <19990510173115.0aaf815...@hub.freebsd.org> > Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 22:14:56 +0200 > From: Mark Murray > > "Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: > > with volunteers, we could moderate the list(s). mail transfer > > would be

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Joe Abley
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 10:29:16PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > Garrett Wollman wrote: > > < said: > > > > > Have you ever considered only allowing list members to post, or are > > > there difficulties that make this impossible? > > > > Yes, there are. > > Content-free answer. Please elaborate?

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > Yes, but is stops the scrape 'n spammers who get the easy-to-reach > > addresses off the web page. > > It also stops perfectly legitimate users who are subscribed to a local > mailing-list exploder, read the lists through Usenet, or for

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: > > > > "Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: > > > > with volunteers, we could moderate the list(s). mail > > > > transfer would be slower as we wait for the moderator(s) > > > > to approve each piece of email. if we use more than one > > > > moderator per list, the time-seq

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Yes, but is stops the scrape 'n spammers who get the easy-to-reach > addresses off the web page. It also stops perfectly legitimate users who are subscribed to a local mailing-list exploder, read the lists through Usenet, or for other reasons are subscribed with a different address from

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Craig Johnston
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > A spammer could simply become a list member and then SPAM. They won't care > if they are removed once they have perpetrated their abuse. I think most won't bother. Probably a good number of them are mailing automatically to a list of mailing li

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Dmitrij Tejblum
> > "Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: > > > with volunteers, we could moderate the list(s). mail transfer > > > would be slower as we wait for the moderator(s) to approve each piece > > > of email. if we use more than one moderator per list, the > > > time-sequence of email would be lostwe would

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Steven P. Donegan
I have received more email today related to SPAM than I have actual SPAM in the last month+ What has triggered this solution looking for a problem? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Mark Murray
Chuck Robey wrote: > > Have you ever considered only allowing list members to post, or are > > there difficulties that make this impossible? > > There might be some resistance to this for all lists, but how about > just, say, current and committers? Hackers == maybe? I can imagine that there cou

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Chuck Robey
; To: Jonathan M. Bresler > Cc: curr...@freebsd.org > Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 3:17 PM > Subject: Re: SPAM > > > >"Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: > >> with volunteers, we could moderate the list(s). mail transfer > >> would be slower as we wait for t

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Mark Murray wrote: > "Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: > > with volunteers, we could moderate the list(s). mail transfer > > would be slower as we wait for the moderator(s) to approve each piece > > of email. if we use more than one moderator per list, the > > time-sequence of

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Mark Murray
Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > Have you ever considered only allowing list members to post, or are > > there difficulties that make this impossible? > > Yes, there are. Content-free answer. Please elaborate? M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubsc

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Mark Murray
"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: > A spammer could simply become a list member and then SPAM. They won't care > if they are removed once they have perpetrated their abuse. Yes, but is stops the scrape 'n spammers who get the easy-to-reach addresses off the web page. The subscribed spammers at least h

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Have you ever considered only allowing list members to post, or are > there difficulties that make this impossible? Yes, there are. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
17 PM Subject: Re: SPAM >"Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: >> with volunteers, we could moderate the list(s). mail transfer >> would be slower as we wait for the moderator(s) to approve each piece >> of email. if we use more than one moderator per list, the >>

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Mark Murray
"Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote: > with volunteers, we could moderate the list(s). mail transfer > would be slower as we wait for the moderator(s) to approve each piece > of email. if we use more than one moderator per list, the > time-sequence of email would be lostwe would get some very >

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
> From: Seamus Wassman > Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 20:31:00 -0700 > > I was quite surprised the First Time I got SPAM through this mailing list, I > thought for sure there would be someone to moderate it so that no garbage gets > through, I personally find it quite offensive to get SPAM on a help

Re: SPAM

1999-05-10 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Seamus Wassman wrote: > I was quite surprised the First Time I got SPAM through this mailing > list, I thought for sure there would be someone to moderate it so > that no garbage gets through, I personally find it quite offensive > to get SPAM on a help based mailing list, I ha