Just a quick pointer to an article in German for those 350+ Subscribers with a t-online-Mailaddress. T-Online verbessert den Spamschutz - Legitime Mails werden abgelehnt. Summary: T-Online now blocks non-spam Mail from Debians Listserver.
Today i tried the first time to do GeoCaching with my Nokia N810 running the Maemo (which is a Debian-based Distribution). I already own a Garmin Geko 201 with which i found 100+ Caches, so this is my reference. The GPS-Receiver of the N810 is better than the one in the Geko (at least since i use the fixed gpsd, which normally shouldn’t do something on the performance, but in my case… it made me feel better), so fixes come faster, and more accurate than on the Geko. (from hearsay the SirfIII-Chip is even better) ...
Because of some modifications at my Real Life Orkplace, I decided to reduce other duties to get a better chance to deal with my new duties. So i requested help for my four packages in the Distribution. RFH: jove My first package. A small, but powerful Emacs-relative, with all those uneeded things stripped which makes emacs fat. Maybe these days especially useful for small memory devices, as it gives you emacs-likeness for the price of nvi or ae. I have no idea how well it works in a real utf-8-environment. RFH: milter-greylist A greylist-milter which makes running a mailserver somehow possible for me. it keeps away about 2/3 of spam, which leaves me with only 400spams/day. I already have two contacts who want to help with that. RFH: nn No news is good news, but nn is better. This is a USENET reader, for those people who grow up with Webforums and Blogs: This could be still the most effective way to celebrate flamefests, gather information or communicate with people sharing same interests. And nn has in my opinion the best UI for it, and makes it easy and fast to find interesting articles and skip others. Well, Upstream Development has ceased to exist around 1994. I think if no one takes over, this package will become finally useless when IPv6 gets widely used (right after the release of ‘Duke Nukem Forever’) and it also doesn’t deal well with non iso-8859-1-charsets. So best for this package would be to rewrite it from scratch (my dream: message/mime-handling/threading from mutt, scoring from slrn, and UI from nn) because the User Interface is much better than those of all still alive Newsreaders i tried. RFA: synergy This is my most popular package, which makes it possible to share one mouse and keyboard over many computers and displays. (It is available for UNIX/Linux, Windows and MacOS) This is a very very useful software, and i use it permanently. Sadly the Upstream Development mostly ceased to exist, and so i put this to RFA (instead of RFH) because many Debian-Users use it according to popcon. This software should be taken over by someone who is able to help Upstream. There is a RC-Bug, which caused the package be pulled from testing. Interesting is that while filing those RFH/RFA all the same day, i only got responses for the packages which scores lowest in popcon, (24 for milter-greylist, 1196 for synergy).
… because they are bouncing. In my ongoing attempt to investigate and fix problems of our mailinglist-server, i found that we only had a working bounce-detection for lists starting debian-* minus debian-private and the three digest-lists. So i rewrote some parts of the bounce detection: We now have four categories of lists: high (30 or more mails a day) medium (20 or more mails a week) low (10 or more mails a month) very-low (the rest) for these four categories we calculate a spam-rate depending on the number of distributed messages and the number of bounces in the timerange of 24 hours for ‘high’ lists, 7 days for ‘medium’ lists, 30 days for ’low’ lists and 90 days for ‘very-low’ lists. ...
While analysing the pole setters in our internal bouncers-Hitlist i found that some of them run a mail2news-Gateway. The problem is: our Mailinglists leave Mail-Headers mostly untouched, and so headers like X-Trace or X-Complaints-To are passed through without modifications. If a mail containing those headers is handed over to inews (as in INN) it rejects it, and the bounce comes back to us: <> XXXXX@XXX.com> >: Command died with status 1: “/usr/bin/maildrop”. Command output: inews: cannot send article to server: 441 Can’t set system “X-Complaints-To” header inews: article not posted ...
Just a quick note: while wading through the list-archives, drop-boxes and list-configuration to find false positives and possiblities to optimise our mailinglists spam level i accidently removed the inclusion of our spamfilters from most lists. I appologise for this. Luckily zobel discovered my error and fixed it at 14:30 CET.
I’m just wadeing through Debian-Mailinglists on the search for enhancements and false-positives. and i just came over debian-security-announce, a lists that sends a helpful message back to submitters that aren’t allowed to send out advisories. That message didn’t contain a Precedence-Header so i added one, and wondered which value would be appropriate… I remember to have seen three values: ‘junk’, ‘bulk’ and ’list’ (the latter should be set for all our Mailinglists). ...
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after playing around a little bit with maemo inside scratchbox, i managed to break the packetsystem beyond repair… so i wanted to start again, but the maemo-sdk-install_4.0.sh told me: E: You must close your other scratchbox sessions first so… where to go from here? http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-irclog/%23maemo.2007-01-20.log.html knows it: sb-conf killall are the magic words. lets start again.
As i blogged before i’m going to be the happy (?) owner of a Nokia N810. On this device runs a Linux with a special distribution and there is also a Development SDK, which can be run on ia32-machines. This SDK relies on Scratchbox, so i just downloaded and tried to install it. This works smoothly, they provide a shellscript, which downloads all needed components and feeds them to dpkg. But, when i try to start Scratchbox i get ...