Posting restrictions on this mailing list (for spam control)?

[MQ]

2006/11/6, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org>:
>
>
> On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Spadge wrote:
>
> > Ross Finlayson wrote:
> >> Am I the only person who's tired of all of the spam on this mailing
> list?
> >> Why is this mailing list not set up so that only subscribers to the
> list
> >> can post to it?  This has been standard mailing list procedure for
> several
> >> years now.
> >
> > Spam is annoying, for sure. But I think every now and then spamassassin,
> or
> > whatever system the board uses, dies, and on those days we get a bunch
> of
> > spam. Usually, though, it's fixed pretty quickly ... until the next
> time.
> >
> > It's quite possible that, as the list members aren't moderated, the
> sending
> > bots actually sign up. I'm not sure about this, though. I've not tested
> the
> > list with an unsigned address, either, but it's quite possible you do
> have
> > to be a member to post.
>
> Once in a while, the spam filtering on FreeBSD.org keels over and the
> level of
> spam briefly increases until it's fixed.  Over the weekend, the
> FreeBSD.org
> hardware was relocated to a rolling rack in preparation for it to be moved
> to
> a different colo, since Yahoo! is vacating the current colo it's sitting
> in.
> Disruption of this type often results in a window where spamassassin isn't
> processing in-bound mail, so it bypasses spam filtering; I expect this is
> probably what happened with respect to a bump in the spam rate in the last
> day
> or two.
>
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
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The  mailing list denied all the mail from my previous mail box provided by
Netease(NASDAQ: NTES) from China mainland, even I subscribed to -net, and
asked me to wait the moderator's approval. But after I changed my mailbox to
gmail, the filter never returned such message. I don't know why I can't post
to -net even I subscribed to it. Maybe a misconfiguration?