HEADS UP! List changes occuring WEDNESDAY 13 Oct 2004 to address spam

David Rhodus sdrhodus at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 20:03:27 PDT 2004


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:17:59 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Dillon
<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     The spam situation is going to require a change in the way the DragonFly
>     lists work!  At least 2 got through in the last 24 hours, and there
>     were 16+ that got caught by the list server's spam filter.  I have tried
>     to make these changes as non-intrusive to our subscribers as possible!
> 
>     All DragonFly lists are going to become non-subcriber-authenticated
>     on wednesday.  This means:

I really really think we should leave the bugs list open for *ANYONE*
to post.  FreeBSD shut down the PR submit list using a draconian
method and I think that was a very bad move, not that bugs@ is the
same as pr@ was but its close enough that it shouldn't be restricted
on posting...

-- 
                                            -David
                                            Steven David Rhodus
                                            <drhodus at xxxxxxxxxxx>





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