Are the GCC lists intended to be open lists?

Paul Koning pkoning@equallogic.com
Wed Jan 16 10:46:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:

 Christopher> FWIW, I've given up and removed this RBL from the group
 Christopher> of services employed on gcc.gnu.org/sources.redhat.com.
 Christopher> The service was really only intended for the customers
 Christopher> of 510 Software, although it was generously available
 Christopher> for outside use, too.  I didn't want to increase the
 Christopher> number of complaints in this guy's inbox so I removed
 Christopher> blackholes.five-ten-sg.com from the list of RBL's that
 Christopher> are checked for spam.

 Christopher> It was doing a good job at catching spam which was not
 Christopher> caught by the other services, but, of course, it caught
 Christopher> a few more non-spammers, too.  Since you aren't blocked
 Christopher> from posting if you're subscribed, I thought that the
 Christopher> hit rate on valid email would be really low.  It wasn't
 Christopher> as low as I thought it would be, though, which is
 Christopher> another reason for removing this service.

Thanks.  I appreciate the change.

	 paul



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