Re: Mailing Lists: RBL, ORBS

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Jason Molenda wrote:
> We currently block mail that is listed in the RBL site; we were
> blocking stuff listed dorkslayers until that went on-line--I'll add the
> www.orbs.org to the blocker.

Well, now that's nice. ;-)

I have installed the following patch to our description of the mailing
list setup, in case someone experiences problems.

Jason, feel free to tweak that...

Gerald


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  <h1 align="center">egcs project mailing lists</h1>
  
  
! <p>We are in the process of moving all mailing list functions from the Cygnus
! mailserver to the egcs machine.
  
! <p>This conversion has three key benefits for the
! egcs project.
  <ol>  
    <li> The delay between the time a message is posted to a
    list and the time it arrives at its final destination should be significantly
    reduced.
    <li> We will be able to put in anti-spam filters on our lists without
!   effecting Cygnus's mailserver.
    <li> More of the list functions will be automated.
  </ol>
  
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  <h1 align="center">egcs project mailing lists</h1>
  
  
! <p>We are in the process of moving all mailing list functions from the
! Cygnus mailserver to the egcs machine. If you have problems sending
! mail to egcs.cygnus.com, note that we block spam sites and open mail
! relays by subscribing to <a href="http://maps.vix.com/rbl/"> MAPS
! RBL</a> and <a href="http://www.orbs.org/">ORBS</a>. Please do not
! complain to us, but ask your server admin to fix his setup.
  
! <p>The conversion to egcs.cygnus.com has three key benefits:
  <ol>  
    <li> The delay between the time a message is posted to a
    list and the time it arrives at its final destination should be significantly
    reduced.
    <li> We will be able to put in anti-spam filters on our lists without
!   effecting Cygnus's mailserver (see above).
    <li> More of the list functions will be automated.
  </ol>
  
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