PATCH: lists.html and circumventing anti-spam measures
Gerald Pfeifer
pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Wed Jan 16 13:17:00 GMT 2002
cgf pointed out that on gcc.gnu.org we failed to document how to avoid
our anti-spam measures.
The patch below addresses this, basically copying over documentation from
sources.redhat.com with a few most minor tweaks (like using <em> instead
of <b>).
Installed.
Gerald
Index: lists.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/lists.html,v
retrieving revision 1.73
diff -u -3 -p -r1.73 lists.html
--- lists.html 2002/01/06 15:55:55 1.73
+++ lists.html 2002/01/16 21:02:35
@@ -254,6 +254,25 @@ site to relay their spam.</p>
<a href="http://ordb.org/">ORDB</a>.
</p>
+<p>Note that, if you are <em>subscribed</em> to a mailing list at
+gcc.gnu.org, you will not be subject to any kind of spam blocking
+for that mailing list. However, if you are subscribed from one account
+and post from <em>another</em> then the posting account will be subject
+to spam block checking. To avoid this, you can put yourself on the
+"global allow" list for gcc.gnu.org by sending mail to</p>
+
+<blockquote><p><code>
+global-allow-subscribe-you=yourdomain.com@gcc.gnu.org
+</code></p></blockquote>
+
+<p>(where you=yourdomain.com translates to your email address with an "="
+substituted for the "@"). This will bypass all spam checking for future
+submissions to the gcc.gnu.org mailing lists.</p>
+
+<p>You can use this technique if you just want to be able to send
+email to a list without receiving any email from the list. You can also
+give yourself posting privileges just for an individual list by replacing
+"global" above with the name of the specific list.</p>
<p>To complicate the harvesting of e-mail addresses from the web archives
of the GCC mailing lists, some simple transformations are done on the
e-mail addresses. It isn't perfect, but short of destructively modifying
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