RE: [wlug] Changes to list behaviour
by Lindsay Druett
It's funny how people seem to have an opinion on this matter when it's
is an operational thing, maybe they should consider being the moderator.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim Shepherd [mailto:kims@waikato.ac.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, 27 November 2003 16:30
> To: 'wlug'
> Subject: Re: [wlug] Changes to list behaviour
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:52:23PM +1300, Craig Box wrote:
> > > Because of the (ever-increasing) ratio of spam:legitimate
> posts that
> > > are getting caught by Mailman, I've changed the default behaviour
> > > upon receiving a message from an unsub'd address to
> 'discard'. It was
> > > previously 'hold'.
> >
> > http://www.daa.com.au/~james/articles/mailman-spamassassin/
> >
> > Craig
>
> Yeah, I know and like SpamAssassin -- we run it on the
> University mail server, as you probably know -- but
> implementing it on a mailman-wide level will be a slightly
> more long-term project.
>
> For the moment, we'll just all have to be a bit more careful
> about which addresses we send from. (and it's not a big
> problem.. maybe 2 legit mails a month compared with 75 spams)
>
> -k.
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16 years, 6 months
Changes to list behaviour
by Kim Shepherd
Hi all,
Still alive?
Because of the (ever-increasing) ratio of spam:legitimate posts that are
getting caught by Mailman, I've changed the default behaviour upon receiving
a message from an unsub'd address to 'discard'. It was previously 'hold'.
I'd like to make it 'reject' (with a polite message sent back to the author)
so you're all aware of when you accidentally post using the wrong e-mail
address, but that just makes the spambots think we're listening harder,
which in turn creates more useless mail traffic.
Yes, I'm lazy. But when you get back from holiday and see "77 Pending
Moderator Requests" that all require manual rejection/acceptance, it doesn't
exactly make your day. ;-P
-k.
16 years, 6 months
Meeting 2003-11-24
by Gerwin van de Steeg
Craig,
I'd be interested in seeing that Red Hat Enterprise.
Matthias,
I'll take a copy of Fedora on one week lifetime warranty discs.
Gerwin van de Steeg
16 years, 6 months
WLUG meeting Monday 23/11/03
by Craig Box
In the absence of the meeting reminder bot, I'd just like to remind everyone
about tomorrow's meeting: we have a guest speaker, Peter Hooker from Globaltech
NZ, to tell us about ACCPAC accounting/business solutions for Linux. (There's
more on the Wiki.)
Peters talk probably wont last very long, and this is the last formal
presentation meeting for the year so please feel free to bring your computers
along if you have anything you need to have looked at or want to have a play
with. If anyone wants to have a look at the new Fedora Linux Project release or
the White Box Enterprise Linux (Red Hat Enterprise 3 rebuild) let me know on the
list.
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16 years, 6 months
RE: [wlug] hardware for free
by David Nicholls
hey brett, if you are out there, i found the cd cartridges for the cd tower... give me a call if you want them.
cheers...
david
-----Original Message-----
From: David Nicholls
Subject: [wlug] hardware for free
hey people, i have sitting in my garage the following:
1x 5x SCSI cd tower
cheers...
David
ps. i cant drive, so pickup would be your responsibility.
16 years, 6 months
Upcoming meeting - ACCPAC Business Software, Mon Nov 24th, Crawshaw School
by Craig Box
Hi everyone
At this coming Monday's meeting (November 24th), Peter Hooker from
Globaltech NZ in Christchurch (http://www.globaltechnz.com/) will be
presenting ACCPAC (http://www.accpac.com) and their line of business
applications for Linux.
Globaltech are ACCPAC partners who are looking to partner with Linux
consultants for ACCPAC deployments, so if you're in the IT business, you're
encouraged to attend this meeting.
While I realise that this isn't relevant to everyone, that's the problem
with a diverse user base. I've asked that Peter's presentation be broad
enough to be of interest to everyone, and not just be a sales pitch. For
the non consultant, are people interested in also having a brief look at Red
Hat's new "community" release, Fedora Core 1? (If you want a copy of this,
Matthias will probably roll you one off for a very nominal donation - reply
to the list or email him privately. Thanks Matthias.)
If there's anything else that people want to see or hear about at this
meeting, please post to this list - this will be our last formal
presentation for the year, so if you have any problems with your PC that you
would like help with, feel free to bring it along too.
Please note that the meeting is at Crawshaw School
(http://www.wlug.org.nz/CrawshawSchool has a map) and will start around
7:30pm.
Craig
16 years, 6 months
hardware for free
by David Nicholls
hey people, i have sitting in my garage the following:
1x sun server box (sans HDDs) ex uni & old
1x sun - i think - 19" monitor
2x sun sparc stations 1 with optical lan card, 1 without
1x 5x SCSI cd tower
1x 1GB external SCSI HDD (big sucker)
1x hp laserjetII with 8MB RAM (pretty sure it's that... its grunty
anyway)
1x panasonic kx-p112something (its a colour or b&w dotmatrix anyway...
something line that anyway)
all of the sun and SCSI stuff is ex uni, ive had it for a few years and
never had a chance to play with it as i had planned. so its going free
to the first claimers to email me off list. there may even be an old
SGI O2 for someone if i find the box.
cheers...
David
ps. i cant drive, so pickup would be your responsibility.
16 years, 6 months
Committee meeting upcoming
by Craig Box
Hi everyone,
There will be a WLUG committee meeting this coming Wednesday night (19
November.)
The minutes of the previous meeting are at
http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2003-10-22 and I expect most of the
meeting will be a continuation on those topics.
If anyone has anything they want bought up at the meeting, or wishes to
attend, please email me before Wednesday.
Thanks
Craig
16 years, 6 months
The Hamilton Computer Club meeting is tonight
by Meeting Reminder Bot
The The Hamilton Computer Club meeting is tonight
This is an announcement about the Hamilton Computer Club, not the
next WLUG meeting. Feel free to ignore it.
If you're interested in the Computer Club, they meet about 7:30pm
on the second Wednesday of each month at St Peters Cathedral Hall which
is up the hill at the South End of Victoria Street.
For further details, see http://www.hamiltoncomputerclub.co.nz/
16 years, 6 months
