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[Bacula-users] [Fwd: SourceForge Sitewide update: Aug 29th, 2003]
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From: Kern S. <ke...@si...> - 2003-08-31 09:00:59
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Hello, Since we recently discussed possible spam problems with this list that were brought up by Phil, I thought you might be interested in the following email that I received from SourceForge. Best regards, Kern -----Forwarded Message----- From: SourceForge.net Team <no...@so...> To: ke...@si... Subject: SourceForge Sitewide update: Aug 29th, 2003 Date: 31 Aug 2003 00:04:31 -0700 (You have acquired this SF.net update because you requested to be on the list. Honest! An explanation is at the bottom of this email, and also info on how to be extracted from the list) 0. Intro (CVS / Spam Filtering)=20 1. Project of the month: Boa Constructor=20 2. Asian Download mirror=20 3. Stats and Top Projects SF.net Sitewide Update Sponsored by Oracle: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Free Oracle on Linux Software! Get a free Oracle on Linux Kit containing one DVD with Oracle9i Database, Oracle9i Application Server, and Oracle9i Developer Suite on Linux, plus a CD of open source code from Oracle. Call 1.800.633.0538 or follow the link: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?orac5110en --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear SourceForge.net User, The summer is almost over and people are going back to school. Historically SourceForge.net, and other OSDN sites, get a spike in traffic during the first half of September, as students return to their dorm rooms and hook up their broadband connections for the first time. We are looking forward to seeing some new faces around here and future Open Source developers. I wanted to give you a few updates on SF.NET. First, in the last sitewide email I described our CVS performance issues and the solution we are introducing to fix them. The performance increase I spoke of (600%+ increase) is just days away from being deployed. The new systems are now in place, additional electrical power has been added to our colocation cage, and the Linux boxes are in their final stages of configuration. Hang in there. Help is on the way. Second, spam and worms, such as the SoBig mess, have been a real headaches for sites such as SF.NET with large numbers of users. The SoBig worm, for instance, was sending the SF.NET mailserver over 20,000 emails every 10 minutes during it's peak. Spam volume on the site has also grown to unreasonable levels, as spammers have found new ways to target our 700,000 developers (and every other user on the internet). Last week, to assist with these issues, we deployed a new spam filtering technology on SourceForge.net. Now every email that is sent through our mail servers, either addressed to your SourceForge.net mail address or sent to a SF.NET mailing list, is being processed through our spam filter. Every email is now scored by the likelihood that it is spam (or worm/virus related email). You can view the scoring by viewing 'full headers' in any email you receive from SF.NET. Emails that are classified as having an extremely high certainty of SPAM are now being dropped from the system and not delivered to you. Emails that -may- be spam will be sent to you but you'll be able to filter them via your mail client with the header info we're providing. It is our belief that this solution will help. It may not completely fix the spam issue, but it will help a great deal. BTW: The filtering technology we've deployed, SpamAssassin and ClamAV, are two projects on SourceForge.net. The SF.NET team would like to thank the admins and developers of these two projects for their hard work and excellent software. As always if you have any questions or issues related to SourceForge.net, please email me directly at pa...@sf... Thank you. Pat- Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net email: pa...@sf...=20 SF.NET Project of the Month: Boa Constructor ---------------------------------------------=20 Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Python is arguably the most exciting and innovative programming language available for use today. Serious programmers, using any language, need powerful tools designed to support development in order to be successful. Boa Constructor, SF.net's August 2003 project of the month, is Python's serious tool. Boa Constructor is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that makes writing extensive Python code a snap. It provides an interactive debugger, text editor with highlighting, object inspector, integrated help and the ability to graphically view classes. Boa Constructor is written in Python and currently supports Linux and Windows. The project was founded on SF.NET in January 2001 and currently enjoys the top 10% activity ranking on the site. Project of the month: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2003-08.php Summary Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/boa-constructor/ Home Page: http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/ Japanese Download Mirror=20 --------------------------------------------- This month we've added a new download mirror in Japan. This is the first SF.NET mirror in Asia and we're excited to give faster file access to the Open Source Community in this part of the world. 'Kansai Science City Internet Community', based in Keihanna, Japan, has been kind enough to host a system and provide bandwidth for the community. =20 The SourceForge.net team would like to thank them for their support and participation. Their website: http://www.ksc.gr.jp/ Related to Japan, there is also an installation of SourceForge in Japanese, which is hosted and managed by our sister company OSDN Japan. (http://www.osdn.jp). SourceForge.jp is a site dedicated to Open Source developers in Japan. They currently have over 600 projects on the site. Check it out: http://www.sourceforge.jp Stats and Top Projects.=20 --------------------------------------------- Number of Projects: 67,183=20 Number of Registered Users: 688,530 Daily Stats for August 27, 2003 SF.NET : 1,864,674 pages served SF.NET project web space : 4,201,948 pages served=20 Total Pages: 6,066,622 CVS updates: 18,889 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 465,418 Outgoing Mailing list emails: 1,687,474 Top 25 Projects: 1. Gaim https://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique features. 2. Tiki CMS/Groupware=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki Tiki is a powerful CMS/Groupware. Features: article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, poll/survey & quiz, FAQ, chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, ACL, etc in Single Sign-on or LDAP.(PHP/MySQL/Smarty) 3. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution https://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality. 4. ScummVM=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for several point-and-click adventure engines. This includes Simon the Sorcerer by AdventureSoft, Beneath a Steel Sky by Revolution, and most SCUMM-based games used by LucasArts in titles such as: Maniac Mansion, etc. 5. WinMerge https://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge A visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. Useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. 6. phpMyAdmin=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields. 7. Gallery=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery A slick, intuitive web based photo gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great for communities. 8. Alvaro's Messenger=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn Alvaro's Messenger is a MSN messenger clone for linux/unix/windows/mac. It features multilanguage support, file transfers, new graphical interface, emoticons, multiple profiles support, dock icon, sound events, email notification, URL processing... 9. guliverkli=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils. 10. JBoss.org=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java 11. POPFile - Automatic Email Classification https://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients. 12. Meteorologist=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/heat-meteo Meteorologist is the only free weather program for OS X. It's also the only weather program that allows users total control over their weather viewing experience, including simultaneous interlaced weather reports from multiple weather servers. 13. PCGen -- An RPG Character Generator https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen PCGen is a java role-playing game character generator and maintenance program. All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. 14. FileZilla=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. 15. AWStats https://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful and featureful web server logfile analyzer that shows you all your Web (but also FTP or Mail) statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords, robots, etc... 16. MegaMek https://sourceforge.net/projects/megamek MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi boardgame for 2+ players. Fight using giant robots, tanks, and/or infantry on a hex-based map. 17. TUTOS=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/ calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents and your time spent with these things 18. phpWebSite Content Management System https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwebsite Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University, phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. All client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. 19. Azureus - BitTorrent Client=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus A Java Based BitTorrent Client. 20. TightVNC https://sourceforge.net/projects/vnc-tight TightVNC is an improved version of VNC, great free remote-desktop tool. The improvements include new bandwidth-friendly "tight" encoding, local cursor support on the client side, enhanced GUI, many bugfixes, and more. 21. JChatIRC https://sourceforge.net/projects/jchatirc IRC Java client with support of smileys 22. EvilHack=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/evilhack Evilhack is a Direct3D8 wrapper for use with Americas Army game. It analyses the objects that are drawn by the game engine and provides extended information like player locations and status to the user. 23. Fluxbox https://sourceforge.net/projects/fluxbox Fluxbox is a X11 windowmanager build for speed and flexibility. 24. Gimp-Print - Top Quality Printer Drivers https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print A very high quality package of printer drivers for Ghostscript and CUPS. This project also maintains the Print plug-in for the Gimp from the same code base. 25. SquirrelMail=20 https://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrelmail SquirrelMail is a PHP4-based Web email client. It includes built-in pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, and renders all pages in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It also has MIME support, folder manipulation, etc., The reason you are receiving this email.=20 ----------------------=20 When the SF.NET team sends out a site-wide email, we sometimes see replies that look like this: "Hey! I didn't ask to be on this list! You spammer. I hate you! I hate your dog! (insert other colorful phrases here)". The truth is, when you registered on SourceForge.net there was a check box that said "Receive Site-wide updates, low volume". You left it checked when you submitted the registration form, hence you are receiving this email. We send these updates every 4 to 6 weeks, so it truly is low volume. However if you want off, this is not a problem. 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