[Biojava-l] spam to biojava-l

[chris dagdigian]

One of our biggest anti-spam tools has been unavailable since we moved 
servers to the new internet connection and lost our ability to query the 
www.mail-abuse.org RBL+ blackhole lists.

I followed up on my month-old request to have our new IP added to the 
ACL and got a reply back this evening that says we should be good to go 
in about 1 hour.

mail-abuse.org 's DNS-blackhole lists are used at the sendmail SMTP 
server level and are our first line of spam defense.

If people are seriously getting annoyed with spam one option that 
biojava-l list members can discuss is the idea of making the list 100% 
moderated (ie all posts must be manually approved). The DAS and MOBY 
people are doing this with good success.

The problem with that is that we don't have the volunteer bandwidth on 
the O|B|F mailteam to handle moderating biojava all by ourselves. We'd 
need a few biojva-l members to step up and volunteer their services as 
list moderators.

Regards,
Chris
part of the root-l@bioperl.org OBF sysadmin cabal :)



Schreiber, Mark wrote:
> Mmmm, who needs biojava when you can have half price steak ;-)
> 
> Seriously though, are we using the open-bio email filters? We seem to
> get lots of spam that's not sneaking onto the other lists.
> 
> <grrrr/>
> - Mark
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