mx2.freebsd.org in dnsbl.sorbs.net

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Bill Campbell wrote:

> It doesn't surprise me that the IP made spam DNSBLs because a fair amount
> of spam does get through to the list.

I would characterize that as "a very small amount", but yes, a few spam 
messages do get through.  Compared to most lists, and especially 
considering that many of the FreeBSD lists can be posted to without 
subscribing, I'd say they are extremely clean.

> It's not obvious that messages come from the list (one of advantages 
> of subject tagging with list prefixes) so it's easy for people to 
> report that spam to places like spamcop without realizing that it's 
> list traffic.

Don't think SORBS takes nominations, but who knows.  The reason I had 
both the FreeBSD mailer IPs in my access list was because at some point 
in the past I had manually blocked the ranges those addresses were in 
for relaying Korean spam.  Not the two FreeBSD addresses, just the 
ranges.

> I think the list manager for this list is Mailman.  It's easy to implement
> spamassassin checking in Mailman which would probably catch a large
> percentage of the spam that now gets through to the list.

The web page says the list owner is freebsd-questions-owner -at- 
freebsd.org.  Or postmaster would probably be appropriate also.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA