[Volunteers] Re: [Techtalk] Linuxchix using SPEWS?

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 08:48, Mary wrote:

> > Is it possible to change this behavior of the Linuxchix lists?  Since the 
> > lists are for subscribers-only (essentially a whitelist), is blacklisting 
> > necessary?  I ask these honestly -- if there really is a reason for an RBL, 
> > and SPEWs really is the best one for the job, then that's fine, but my 
> > experience denotes otherwise.

> I think the LinuxChix servers have upon occasion been nearly crippled
> just by the volume of spam people try and send to it[1] so this processing
> time does matter. But that doesn't mean that it isn't worth raising the
> issue on volunteers.

Yes. Most of the time when the lists are So Slow People Complain, it's
because of processing spam mail.

Anything which shortens the spam-rejecting or spam-dropping time enables
us to run Linuxchix - without it, we wouldn't be able to. :(


Jenn V.
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