On Fri, 22 May 2009 22:30:03 +0100 Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote: > 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. It does save creating a specific alioth mailing list for a group of maintainers and uploaders. It's started being used for svn-buildpackage@p.d.o It's only a convenience thing for discussions that aren't actually related to existing bug reports. > 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. Maybe a list of packages that do use it and an address to email for those who want to start using it at a later date? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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