Minutes/2023-08-25: Difference between revisions
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Latest revision as of 16:51, 25 August 2023
Present: TM, RL
- Administration
- TM has pinged the proponent of the RFD for comp.lang.go.
- Infrastructure
- Starting on 21 August, comp.ai
has been experiencing a flood of hundreds of binary articles with randomized Subject and From lines. STUMP's blocking mechanism is ineffective for this, so TM added a rule to .procmailrc that sends the submissions to /dev/null. The articles appear to originate from Newsgroup Ninja. An abuse report sent to the e-mail address in the article headers bounced. TM sent another abuse report to the provider's support address but has not received a reply.
- Starting on 21 August, comp.ai
- Wiki
- RL has added an article on NoCeM and a category Category:Usenet infrastructure.
- TM finished bringing JE's Getting Started with Usenet tutorial up to date and expanded it with a section on using Paul Schleck's sample .netrc file of active newsgroups.
- Any other business
- Agreed to cancel the next two meetings due to holidays
