[CentOS] Request for CentOS stats

Wed May 30 22:53:12 UTC 2012
Bob Hoffman <bob at bobhoffman.com>

On 5/30/2012 6:49 PM, Nataraj wrote:
> On 05/30/2012 03:36 PM, Bob Hoffman wrote:
>> On 5/30/2012 5:50 PM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
>>> I trust the administrators of the centos.org mailing lists not to give
>>> out any information on my subscription(s) to anyone, even including a
>>> count of it.
>> Actually, I would really like them to clean up our email addresses from
>> the archives.
>> Those pages are copied throughout the net and a lot of sites change the
>> 'me at mysite' to me at mysite.com
>> and it does add to issues and such.
>> Never liked the mailman, majordomo, etc cause they all seem to love to
>> do that...post emails on the web.
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>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
> Very easy solution, create a unique email address to subscribe to the
> list, then add:
>
> whitelist  envelope-to = unique-email-address
>                 client-hostname='regex:.*\.centos\.org'
> blacklist envelope-to = unique-email-address
>
> Of course you need to be running something on your mailserver to let you
> whitelist/blacklist on these different fields and then process whitelist
> and blacklist requests in the order specified.
>
> Using this method you get 0.0000 spam messages from being subscribed to
> the list.  As you've pointed out though,  other list members can't
> easily send you private email.
>
> Nataraj
>
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>
lol..true, except I have a few years of the old address up there..
too late. :)