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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Recent lists mail loss
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:09:44
Message-Id: robbat2-20100203T230833-965717540Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Recent lists mail loss by "Hanno Böck"
1 On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:53:08PM +0100, Hanno Böck wrote:
2 > There's a german statement from the Nix Spam RBL.
3 >
4 > http://www.heise.de/ix/foren/S-Re-Mailinglisten-Bestaetigungs-Email-an-
5 > Spamtrap-legt-Gentoos-Mailinglisten-
6 > lahm/forum-48292/msg-18035095/read/showthread-1/
7 >
8 > As many here probably can't read german, the important points are:
9 > - RFC 3834 defines headers for automatically sent mails, seems our mailing
10 > list software doesn't do that - but robbat2 commented in his blog is already
11 > in contact with upstream about that.
12 > - they claim that nobody contacted them directly and their automatic delisting
13 > method was not used.
14 I only noted it after the 12 hour period was up, and it had expired from
15 their listing.
16
17 mlmmj is sending RF3834 headers on some mails, but not all of them.
18
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20 Robin Hugh Johnson
21 Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
22 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
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