Hello all, So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000 spams a day from elsewhere. I haven't done an exhaustive survey, but it seems pretty clear so far that the domain does not get any significant amount of legitimate mail from machines other than the debian.org hosts. If this is actually the case, I'd like to close the domain down to only accept mail from other debian.org machines. If it's not, I'd like to work with people who do use it to either make it possible to send their mail from debian.org machines or from a short whitelist of machines elsewhere. If this isn't possible, we'll of course continue to offer it as a public service if it's needed. It's just that if it doesn't need to be a public facing mail domain, we all get a little less spam in our inbox, and the service becomes easier to administer. In the large scheme of things, of course, 1000 spams a day is pretty minimal. The amount of processing power that goes into turning away the other 60000 mails/day and then resending the 1000 spams that do get through, though, does approach significance, and I'd like to make it simple to admin and more friendly to the final recipients. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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