Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:47:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:47:52 -0400 Received: from 2-210.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br ([200.193.160.210]:18357 "EHLO 2-210.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:47:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:52:19 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disabled kernel.org accounts In-Reply-To: <3D79463D.4050100@zytor.com> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1219 Lines: 34 On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Please note that The Kernel Dot Org Organization do not endorse or > >>support spam in any shape, way or form, > > > > ... but you would, if you were a paying customer of the ISP. > > We are living on donated bandwidth, which is hard enough to get. I have > complained to our sponsor in the hope that they will complain to the > ISP, but you can imagine how well that goes over. I can't do much. Agreed, you're in a nasty position. Basically your only hopes are that (1) Level3 stops actively protecting spammers and kicks them from their network or (2) your sponsor moves to an ISP that isn't spam friendly or (3) another sponsor pops up out of the blue. Until then I wouldn't worry about it and maybe send out the mail via vger ? regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Spamtraps of the month: september@surriel.com trac@trac.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/