|
Grex > Helpers > #147: Grex System Problems - Winter 2005/06 | |
|
| Author |
Message |
| 25 new of 260 responses total. |
mcnally
|
|
response 136 of 260:
| 
Jan 20 18:38 UTC 2006 |
re #133, 134:
Sindi (and anyone else who reports a complaint about spam blocking..):
It's important that you be specific and careful with your phrasing
when you report things like this. If you're not exactly sure what
is happening, provide the error message verbatim (as you did in
#133) and not your interpretation (as you did in #134.)
For instance, you asked about the spamcop list. Bruce checked and
reported that we're not (currently) on the spamcop blacklist. But
then in item #134 you're again talking about "[a] spamcop blacklist",
apparently using it as a generic term. "blacklist" would be the
generic term, when you say "spamcop" you're talking about a specific
instance, which makes an already confusing situation even moreso.
|
bhoward
|
|
response 137 of 260:
|
Jan 21 03:34 UTC 2006 |
So I did another round of checking our status. Spamblock, a different
blocking service homed at spamblock.outblaze.com, had grex listd
for a spam sent back in December. I made a removal request which
now seems to have taken effect:
http://spamblock.outblaze.com/216.86.77.194
I also checked rbls.org which has a multi-rbl check page:
http://rbls.org/?q=216.86.77.194
and according to them, that we're off (or probably off) most of the
lists they check except for the blackmailers at dnsbl.sorbs.net.
|
naftee
|
|
response 138 of 260:
|
Jan 21 04:33 UTC 2006 |
picospan seems to have this major lag after starting
|
keesan
|
|
response 139 of 260:
|
Jan 21 16:13 UTC 2006 |
I would still appreciate help setting up procmail at sdf - where should I look
for user mail at NetBSD. 3/4 of my 'mail' is now spam there, from three
sources judging from the format (two Russian selling who knows what, one
selling pirated Windows software). And can I find precompiled NetBSD
spamassassin somewhere?
Thanks Bruce for getting us off another spam blocking list. How many are
there?
|
kingjon
|
|
response 140 of 260:
|
Jan 21 16:16 UTC 2006 |
User mail at SDF is in /mail/username -- in my case /mail/kingjon .
|
keesan
|
|
response 141 of 260:
|
Jan 21 18:31 UTC 2006 |
Jon, thank you very much. I asked twice in the bboard mail conference at sdf
with no answer. I copied over my grex .forward and .procmailrc files and
changed locations of procmail and keesan mail, deleted the part about
spamassassin, and added four filters that are catching spam from three
sources. I seem to be on a Russian translators' spam list, believe it or not.
Can there really be Russian translators dumb enough to read spam and buy
pirated Photoshop?
|
rcurl
|
|
response 142 of 260:
|
Jan 21 20:32 UTC 2006 |
Grex is still on the att.net no-no list.
|
denisea
|
|
response 143 of 260:
|
Jan 25 23:16 UTC 2006 |
I'm still occasionally getting all items as new in this conference--instead
of where I left off a day or two [or three] earlier. From my post I made
earlier, it doesn't sound like anyone else is having this problem.
|
mcnally
|
|
response 144 of 260:
|
Jan 26 00:37 UTC 2006 |
Nobody else has mentioned it. I took a look at the permissions on your
conference participation files and they look OK, but perhaps there's
something messed up in your .agora56.cf file. With your permission I'll
remove it, which will certainly cause you to have to mark things as new
one more time but might fix your problem thereafter.
|
slynne
|
|
response 145 of 260:
|
Jan 26 14:01 UTC 2006 |
Sometimes when I read the conferences when telnetted in (as opposed to
reading them on the web), I find that when I exit my participation file
doesnt get updated which results in symptoms that are similar to what
Denise is describing. Usually it occurs if I dont exit bbs before
logging off Grex.
|
albaugh
|
|
response 146 of 260:
|
Jan 26 18:50 UTC 2006 |
("Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Don't do that!")
|
marcvh
|
|
response 147 of 260:
|
Jan 26 19:05 UTC 2006 |
I believe that adding "set autosave" to your config file may help if
that's a frequent problem.
|
denisea
|
|
response 148 of 260:
|
Jan 27 02:45 UTC 2006 |
I don't know how to look at my particpation files, let alone knowing how to
change anything... [And I do telnet to read the conf. as opposed to reading
on the web. So maybe sometimes I do the same thing slynne does.]
|
drew
|
|
response 149 of 260:
|
Jan 27 05:25 UTC 2006 |
I am still having problems entering responses when dialed in direct. Core dump
if I use my default editor, and "Nasty error" if I define editor vi.
|
mcnally
|
|
response 150 of 260:
|
Jan 27 06:19 UTC 2006 |
re #148: If you ask me to, I will remove your conference participation
file for the current Agora to see if that will fix the problem.
re #149: Does it happen if/when you telnet or ssh in?
|
drew
|
|
response 151 of 260:
|
Jan 27 23:13 UTC 2006 |
No. Entering responses and items works normally via ssh and telnet.
|
mcnally
|
|
response 152 of 260:
|
Jan 28 00:19 UTC 2006 |
Odd..
|
mziemba
|
|
response 153 of 260:
|
Jan 31 23:22 UTC 2006 |
I tried connecting to Grex via dial-up about a week ago for the first time
in a while and ran into an odd terminal emulation issue on the Grex end.
I couldn't access pine to read my e-mail because it interpreted my
terminal type as "dial-up."
So, I went to the Grex menu system to change my terminal. I defined my
terminal as VT100 and Grex seemed to register it as such, but when I tried
to read mail via pine it told me again that my terminal was "dialup" and
wouldn't allow me to access mail via pine. Why wouldn't Grex register the
correct terminal type on dial-in even after it was told what that type
would be? It seems like Grex is forcing a terminal type called "dialup"
on dial-in users.
I'm dialing in on a Mac running Mac OS 9.2 and Zterm 1.1b7.
I would still like to access Grex via dial-up locally on occasion, as I
don't always have access to a high-speed internet connection. I like Grex
because I don't need e-mail to be anything other than text, and it's been
nice to have a consistent e-mail address since finding Grex in Ann Arbor
in the mid-1990s.
On another note, I can't seem to use a secure shell to get to Grex via an
Internet connection anymore, either. I have to use plain old telnet,
which isn't terribly secure. What's going on there?
|
other
|
|
response 154 of 260:
|
Feb 1 02:58 UTC 2006 |
I'm still not getting Backtalk buttons enabled when they should be.
Jan? Steve (Weiss)?
|
keesan
|
|
response 155 of 260:
|
Feb 1 13:29 UTC 2006 |
From Mailer-Daemon@cyberspace.org Tue Jan 31 22:30:19 2006
X-Failed-Recipients: XXXX@worldnet.att.net,
XXX@att.net,
XXX@aol.com,
XXX@aol.com
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@cyberspace.org>
To: keesan@cyberspace.org
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:30:18 -0500
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
XXX@worldnet.att.net
SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<keesan@cyberspace.org>
SIZE=3823: host gateway2.worldnet.att.net [12.102.240.23]:
550-216.86.77.194 blocked by blacklist.mail.ops.worldnet.att.net. 550
Blocked for abuse. See http://www.att.net/general-info/rblinquiry.html
XXX@att.net
XXX@aol.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
host mailin-02.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.185]: 554- (RTR:BL) http://postma
ster.info.aol.com/errors/554rtrbl.html
554- AOL does not accept e-mail transactions from IP addresses which
554- generate complaints or transmit unsolicited bulk e-mail.
554 Connecting IP: 216.86.77.194
XXXX@aol.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
How did we get on the rbl list again?
|
mcnally
|
|
response 156 of 260:
|
Feb 1 17:29 UTC 2006 |
It's a different blacklist than before.
|
keesan
|
|
response 157 of 260:
|
Feb 1 20:56 UTC 2006 |
So how did we get onto this different blacklist after blocking new users from
sending outgoing mail?
|
mcnally
|
|
response 158 of 260:
|
Feb 1 21:43 UTC 2006 |
I've no idea and it's not likely they'll explain. Maybe it was the same mail
that we blocked but this list has a longer management cycle and were slower
getting around to blocking us.
Given the profusion of such lists it's nearly impossible to know how they
all work.
|
keesan
|
|
response 159 of 260:
|
Feb 2 02:48 UTC 2006 |
We were blocked by AOL earlier. Can we write and ask to be unblocked?
|
rcurl
|
|
response 160 of 260:
|
Feb 2 03:50 UTC 2006 |
We are still blocked by AOL. I just got a message there returned. AOL
is ubiquitous: e-mail service from Grex is much degraded by a block to AOL.
|