submitting a port

[Mark Russell]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Larry Rosenman wrote:

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> --On Monday, September 08, 2003 08:36:56 -0700 "Hay, Russell"
> <Russell.Hay at wwireless.com> wrote:
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> > ahh All the bored college kids home from school?
> dunno who or why, but there was MASSIVE (I.E. 1000's of PR's) abuse, so
> they
> turned it off.
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> It's a real shame :-(

doesn't explain why they stopped accepting PR's from unresolved IP's
though, use your standard BL's but a blanket ban is stupid, like most
telco's

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> LER
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry Rosenman [mailto:ler at lerctr.org]
> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:37 AM
> > To: Mark Russell; Sergey A. Osokin
> > Cc: ports at freebsd.org; Hay, Russell
> > Subject: Re: submitting a port
> >
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> >
> >
> > --On Tuesday, September 09, 2003 01:32:32 +1000 Mark Russell
> > <freebsd at mark.net.au> wrote:
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> >> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:24:13AM -0700, Hay, Russell wrote:
> >>> > I'm trying to submit a new port using send-pr, but my ISP doesn't give
> >>> > reverse DNS for my IPs, and Postfix on freebsd.org will not allow mail
> >>> > unless it can do a reverse DNS look up on the IP.  Is there another
> >>> > way to submit the PR to get a port added to the ports collection?  Or
> >>> > someway around the IP address issue?
> >>>
> >>> Just talk with your ISP about reverse DNS lookup.
> >>
> >> And if your ISP is clueless like the dominant telco in .au?
> >>
> >> There is a web based send-pr somewhere on the fbsd site.
> >
> > Nope.  It was turned off during the North American Summer due to MASSIVE
> > abuse.
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