[CentOS] Updating 7.5->7.6

Tue Dec 18 19:50:06 UTC 2018
mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Phil Perry wrote:
> On 18/12/2018 16:26, mark wrote:
>> John Hodrien wrote:
>>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, mark wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there something missing?
>>>
>>> An updated nvidia-x11-drv-304xx package.  Have you queried this with
>>> elrepo? Is 304 a dead-end now given it's not had an update since
>>> September 2017?
>>
>> (Please ignore mark, looking up the release date on the user's video
>> card, beating his head on a desk, then going in to the team leader, and
>> suggesting he consider buying new video cards, given cards that are >
>> 10 years old....)
>>
>> In the meantime, I need to support it. Oh, and I just tried to join the
>>  elrepo lists, and it told me my email address was banned. No clue,
>> haven't tried that list for years, emailed the owners....
>>
>
> The elrepo mailing list receives a huge amount of spam attempts from .us
> tld, and as a consequence it is blocked. If you are using the same address
> you use for this list then you are collateral damage. I will whitelist
> your address for you.
>
So... it blocked an *entire* legit TLD?! Why not just block .com...?

Thanks, Phil, much appreciated.

      mark