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Tobias Heinlein | 6 May 2009 22:50
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New developer: Mounir Lamouri (volkmar)

Joining us from Paris, France is Mounir "volkmar" Lamouri. He will
initially be working on the voip stuff and has brought the voip team
back to life.

He says he has good skills in C, C++ and Java. He studied Ada (I had to
look up what that is) and Ruby. As a software engineering student he
also has SQL and other IT skills. Now comes the interesting part: He's
quite experienced in the video game industry where he has been working
for almost 1.5 years. That means he is one of those people who are
making me slack so much. Now you know who to blame.
He says he has done a homebrew for the Nintendo DS and that he is
experienced in system programming as well.
Apart from the usual IT stuff, Mounir also likes writing: He is involved
in the newspaper of his college and he wrote a book that was published
two years ago.
Last but not least, he loves(!) politics. Thus, we have a perfect new
candidate to carry on all the flamewars on the mailing lists and on IRC.

My guess is there's no point in hiding it: Mounir has been around for
about a month already and I just failed to do the announcement again.
The world needs less video games.

Best regards,
Tobias Heinlein
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Steven J Long | 18 May 2009 16:50
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Re: Gentoo Certifications

AllenJB wrote:
> Luca Barbato wrote:
>> Recently I got inquiries about something/somebody that could certify
>> people able to use Gentoo. Apparently there are people that wondered if
>> there is something equivalent to RH or Canonical certifications.
>>
>> Any body has ideas about that? Somebody else would like to have
>> something like that set in place (with the rubber stamps, exams and
>> such)?
>>
> It's not Gentoo-specific, and I have no personal experience, but
> whenever I hear about it (mostly around LUG meets), the LPI
> certifications always seem to be highly regarded.
> 
> http://www.lpi.org/
> 
Agreed; I've never taken them, so don't know their content, but an
equivalent tailored to Gentoo (for stuff like init system and package
management) would be a good place to start. After all, most of Gentoo
administration is working with vanilla configs from upstream. As such,
the knowledge stands one in good stead, since it is readily transferable.

Clearly one would want to update these at least annually for validity,
to the benefit of all concerned.

Does anyone know any of the lpi people? It might be something they'd
be interesting in collaborating on.

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Peter Volkov | 20 May 2009 17:26
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New developer: Robert Piasek (dagger)

It's my pleasure to introduce new Gentoo developer Robert Piasek, known
as dagger on IRC. Robert was originally born in Poland, then in 2005
moved to UK and now he joins us from Southampton, England.

Robert started to help Gentoo long before he got CVS access: with his
help NetworkManager 0.7 ebuilds in the tree were greatly improved by
Robert Buchholz (rbu); also he did a lot of work in the gentoo-embedded
overlay aiming to port Gentoo onto Openmoko Freerunner; fixed kde stuff
in the another overlay. Since one Robert wanted to slack more another
Robert had no chance to escape recruitment...

In real life Robert is working as an IS Manager in a market research
company. He is Free Software Foundation member.

So please give a warm welcome to Robert.
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Robert Buchholz | 20 May 2009 17:51
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Re: New developer: Robert Piasek (dagger)

On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Peter Volkov wrote:
> So please give a warm welcome to Robert.

Welcome on the team now.
All hail to the Roberts conspiracy!

Peter, thanks a lot for your efforts in recruiting.

Robert
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Robin H. Johnson | 27 May 2009 18:28
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Spam reduction proposal - switching lists to a web-form for subscription

Lately we've been seeing a LOT of spam being sent to the mailing list
subscribe mechanism, with the side effect that the subscribe mechanism
responds to the From header address with a confirmation request. That
address (along with the envelope sender) are unfortunately forged.

The volume of the confirmation requests is getting worse than direct
spams, because the spam filtering considers the confirmation requests to
be valid email (they would be, except for the fact they are
unsolicited).

To combat this problem, I'd like us to consider switching the subscribe
mechanism for the mailing lists to be a web form (protected with
recaptcha). Unsubscribe will continue to be offered as an email action
for the moment, because it ignores the mail if the address was not
subscribed.

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Petteri Räty | 27 May 2009 18:38
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Re: Spam reduction proposal - switching lists to a web-form for subscription

Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> Lately we've been seeing a LOT of spam being sent to the mailing list
> subscribe mechanism, with the side effect that the subscribe mechanism
> responds to the From header address with a confirmation request. That
> address (along with the envelope sender) are unfortunately forged.
> 
> The volume of the confirmation requests is getting worse than direct
> spams, because the spam filtering considers the confirmation requests to
> be valid email (they would be, except for the fact they are
> unsolicited).
> 
> To combat this problem, I'd like us to consider switching the subscribe
> mechanism for the mailing lists to be a web form (protected with
> recaptcha). Unsubscribe will continue to be offered as an email action
> for the moment, because it ignores the mail if the address was not
> subscribed.
> 

I have no objection to this one as I have been receiving quite a few of
these...

Regards,
Petteri
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Ferris McCormick | 27 May 2009 19:04
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Re: Spam reduction proposal - switching lists to a web-form for subscription

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 09:28 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> Lately we've been seeing a LOT of spam being sent to the mailing list
> subscribe mechanism, with the side effect that the subscribe mechanism
> responds to the From header address with a confirmation request. That
> address (along with the envelope sender) are unfortunately forged.
> 
> The volume of the confirmation requests is getting worse than direct
> spams, because the spam filtering considers the confirmation requests to
> be valid email (they would be, except for the fact they are
> unsolicited).
> 
> To combat this problem, I'd like us to consider switching the subscribe
> mechanism for the mailing lists to be a web form (protected with
> recaptcha). Unsubscribe will continue to be offered as an email action
> for the moment, because it ignores the mail if the address was not
> subscribed.

Fine with me.  I've been getting quite a few of these lately, and since
I sometimes do subscribe to new lists, I have to look at them before
discarding.

Regards,
Ferris
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Dale | 27 May 2009 20:45
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Re: Spam reduction proposal - switching lists to a web-form for subscription

Petteri Räty wrote:
> Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>   
>> Lately we've been seeing a LOT of spam being sent to the mailing list
>> subscribe mechanism, with the side effect that the subscribe mechanism
>> responds to the From header address with a confirmation request. That
>> address (along with the envelope sender) are unfortunately forged.
>>
>> The volume of the confirmation requests is getting worse than direct
>> spams, because the spam filtering considers the confirmation requests to
>> be valid email (they would be, except for the fact they are
>> unsolicited).
>>
>> To combat this problem, I'd like us to consider switching the subscribe
>> mechanism for the mailing lists to be a web form (protected with
>> recaptcha). Unsubscribe will continue to be offered as an email action
>> for the moment, because it ignores the mail if the address was not
>> subscribed.
>>
>>     
>
> I have no objection to this one as I have been receiving quite a few of
> these...
>
> Regards,
> Petteri
>
>   

Is there something besides a captcha that can be used?  I hate those
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Nirbheek Chauhan | 27 May 2009 21:47
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Re: Spam reduction proposal - switching lists to a web-form for subscription

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2 <at> gentoo.org> wrote:
> To combat this problem, I'd like us to consider switching the subscribe
> mechanism for the mailing lists to be a web form (protected with
> recaptcha). Unsubscribe will continue to be offered as an email action
> for the moment, because it ignores the mail if the address was not
> subscribed.
>

++

Make it so number one. :-)

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Roy Bamford | 27 May 2009 22:00
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Re: Spam reduction proposal - switching lists to a web-form for subscription


On 2009.05.27 17:28, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> Lately we've been seeing a LOT of spam being sent to the mailing list
> subscribe mechanism, 
[snip]
> To combat this problem, I'd like us to consider switching the
> subscribe
> mechanism for the mailing lists to be a web form (protected with
> recaptcha). Unsubscribe will continue to be offered as an email 
> action
> for the moment, because it ignores the mail if the address was not
> subscribed.
> 
> -- 
> Robin Hugh Johnson
> Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
> E-Mail     : robbat2 <at> gentoo.org
> GnuPG FP   : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED  F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
> 
Robin,

Is this a spam outburst that will blow over ?

How will visually imparied users subscribe ?
If that is still possible, I'm not against such a move.

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