APPROVE COMMIT web Index: Lists/ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacsweb/Lists/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.29 diff -u -U0 -r1.29 ChangeLog --- Lists/ChangeLog 12 Oct 2006 05:57:02 -0000 1.29 +++ Lists/ChangeLog 27 Dec 2006 04:22:32 -0000 ＠＠ -0,0 +1,7 ＠＠ +2006-12-27 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * index.content: Update spam policy statement (we're members-only + now) and instant death and hold policies (add COMPLEXBODY). + Reviewed for post-disk-crash correctness, added note that + xemacs-winnt is now directed to xemacs-beta. + Index: Lists/index.content =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacsweb/Lists/index.content,v retrieving revision 1.29 diff -u -r1.29 index.content --- Lists/index.content 12 Oct 2006 05:57:02 -0000 1.29 +++ Lists/index.content 27 Dec 2006 04:22:38 -0000 ＠＠ -426,6 +426,20 ＠＠ </dl> </td> </tr> + <tr valign="top"> + <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> + <p><strong>xemacs-winnt</strong> has been merged into + xemacs-beta, as the Windows support is now a standard part + of XEmacs.</p> + </td> + <td rowspan="1" colspan="1"> + <dl> + <!-- one of (dd dt) --> + <dt><a id="xemacs-nt" name="xemacs-nt">Legacy Archive</a>:</dt> + <dd><a href="http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-nt/">http://ca... + </dl> + </td> + </tr> </table> <h2><a id="subscribing" name="subscribing">How To Subscribe</a></h2> ＠＠ -509,13 +523,9 ＠＠ </p> <p> - Currently the XEmacs mailing lists are operated as open-post - lists. That is, you don't need to be a member to post to them. - While members-only-post is a somewhat effective policy in reducing - spam, it doesn't eliminate it, and it would require substantially - more effort from the list administrators, because we do want to - reply to all legitimate posters, at least to tell them how to - post. Autoresponders cannot be used because they generate huge + Currently the XEmacs mailing lists are operated as members-only-post + lists. Other posts are moderated, first by automatic filters, then + by humans. Autoresponders cannot be used because they generate huge number of bounces due to non-existent addresses at poorly configured hosts, driving the postmaster crazy. Instead, with a mixture of <a href="http://spamassassin.org/">SpamAssassin</a> and ＠＠ -525,13 +535,17 ＠＠ <p> Due to a dramatic increase in the amount of spam and a near - perfect record of like 0.05% false positives, we are discarding - near-certain spam without checking as of 2004-04-27. We have - added more categories as recently as 2005-10-07. Here are the - criteria, any of which qualifies your post for automatic discard: + perfect record of like 0.05% false positives, we are <em>discarding + near-certain spam</em> without checking as of 2004-04-27. We have + added more categories as recently as <strong>2006-12-26</strong>. + Here are the criteria, any of which qualifies your post for automatic + discard: </p> <ol> + <li>Send a message which is of MIME type "multipart/alternative" + or "multipart/related", containing both a "text/html" type part + and an "image/*" type part.</li> <li>Have a known abusive from address (eg, daemon addresses at Microsoft.com, used by the MS-Blaster/Nachi viruses)</li> <li>Send posts with unencoded 8-bit characters in the headers</li> ＠＠ -604,6 +618,8 ＠＠ </p> <ol> + <li>A message which is of MIME type "multipart/alternative" + or "multipart/related", containing an "image/*" type part.</li> <li> Broken headers, including addresses or message IDs apparently munged or added by relays. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches