Spam filtering for mails to FreeBSD Security Team

[Simon L. Nielsen]

Hey,

In the past security-officer at FreeBSD.org, and a few related addresses,
had spam filtering disabled, but due to the amount of spam those
addresses were receiving we had to enable spam filtering.  It's the
same filters as used for the rest of FreeBSD.org.

To make sure people can still contact the FreeBSD Security Team, even
if spam filters are in the way, we have created a separate email
address which doesn't have filtering.  This address is published on
the FreeBSD Security Website [1].  It's somewhat obfuscated but
if/when this address starts to receive spam the address will be
changed.  The current address will always be published on the FreeBSD
Security Website.

It's annoying to have to do this, but with the current levels of spam
we risk real issues getting lost in the noise.

[1] http://security.FreeBSD.org/

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Deputy Security Officer
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